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<p> ''''' jô ''''' , ''''' jô´bōn ''''' ( לחי , <i> ''''' leḥı̄ ''''' </i> , "cheek (bone)," "jaw (bone)"): In &nbsp; Job 41:2 , the Revised Version (British and American) gives "pierce his jaw through with a hook" for the King James Version "bore his jaw through with a thorn" (see [[Hook]]; [[Leviathan]] ). &nbsp;Psalm 22:15 , "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws ( <i> ''''' malḳōaḥ ''''' </i> )," is descriptive of the effect of a fever or physical torture, a dryness and a horrible clamminess. ם , <i> ''''' Malḳoḥayı̄m ''''' </i> is an ancient dual form meaning the two jaws, and, metaphorically, ה , <i> ''''' malḳoaḥ ''''' </i> indicates that which is caught between the jaws, booty, prey, including captives (&nbsp;Numbers 31:11 , &nbsp;Numbers 31:26 , &nbsp;Numbers 31:32; &nbsp;Isaiah 49:24 f). </p> <p> Figurative: (1) Of the power of the wicked, with a reference to [[Divine]] restraint and discipline: "I brake the jaws (Hebrew "great teeth") of the unrighteous" (&nbsp; Job 29:17; &nbsp;Proverbs 30:14 ); compare &nbsp;Psalm 58:6 , "Break out the great teeth ( <i> ''''' maltā‛ōth ''''' </i> , "jaw teeth") of the young lions, [[[[O]] Y]]  ahweh." Let the wicked be deprived of their ability for evil; let them at least be disabled from mischief. [[Septuagint]] reads "God shall break," etc. (Compare Edmund Prys's <i> Metrical [[Paraphrase]] of the Psalms </i> , in the place cited.) "A bridle ... in the jaws of the peoples" (&nbsp;Isaiah 30:28; compare &nbsp;2 Kings 19:28 ) is descriptive of the ultimate check of the [[Assyrian]] power at Jerusalem, "as when a bridle or lasso is thrown upon the jaws of a wild animal when you wish to catch and tame him" (G.A. Smith <i> Isa </i> , I, 235). Compare &nbsp;Ezekiel 29:4 (concerning Pharaoh); &nbsp; Ezekiel 38:4 (concerning Gog), "I will put hooks in (into) thy jaws." (2) Of human labor and trials, with a reference to the Divine gentleness: "I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws" (&nbsp; Hosea 11:4 ), or 'take the yoke off their jaws,' as the humane driver eased the yoke with his hands or 'lifted it forward from neck to the jaws'; or it may perhaps refer to the removal of the yoke in the evening, when work is over. </p> <p> Jawbone (&nbsp; Judges 15:15 ). See [[Ramath-Lehi]] . </p>

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