Easton's Bible Dictionary One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21). "Gnashing of teeth" =rage, despair (Matthew 8:12; Acts 7:54); "cleanness of teeth" =famine (Amos 4:6); "children's teeth set on edge" =children suffering for the sins of their fathers (Ezek. 18:2). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. 2. (n.) Fig.: Taste; palate. 3. (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card. 4. (n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. 5. (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk. 6. (n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant 7. (n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. 8. (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. 9. (v. t.) To furnish with teeth. 10. (v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 11. (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

Multi-Version Concordance Tooth (7 Occurrences) Matthew 5:38 "You have heard that it was said,'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Exodus 21:27 If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Deuteronomy 19:21 Your eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Job 39:28 A rock he doth inhabit, Yea, he lodgeth on the tooth of a rock, and fortress. (YLT) Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)