What the Bible Says About Teeth: Symbolism and Meaning

Scripture

⁸ “Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
your father’s sons shall bow down before you.
⁹ Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine
and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
¹² His eyes are darker than wine,
and his teeth whiter than milk.

Genesis 49:8-12

Exodus 21:23-25: ²³ But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,
²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
²⁵ burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Leviticus 24:19-20: ¹⁹ If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,
²⁰ fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so it shall be done to him.

Deuteronomy 32:39-43: ³⁹ “‘See now that I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,
⁴¹ if I sharpen my flashing sword
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’
⁴³ “Rejoice with him, O heavens;
bow down to him, all gods,
for he avenges the blood of his children
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him
and cleanses his people’s land.”

Judges 15:14-17: ¹⁴ When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
¹⁵ And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.
¹⁶ Then Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.”
¹⁷ And when he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.

1 Samuel 2:1-10: ² And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
² “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.”
³ Talk no more so very proudly,
let not arrogance come from your mouth;
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed.
⁴ The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength.
⁵ Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
The barren has borne seven,
but she who has many children is forlorn.
⁶ The Lord kills and brings to life;
he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
⁷ The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low and he exalts.
⁸ He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor.
⁹ He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.
¹⁰ The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.”

Job 4:7-11: ⁷ “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
⁸ As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
⁹ By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
¹⁰ The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
¹¹ The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 16:9-14: ⁹ He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
¹⁰ they have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.
¹¹ “God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.”
¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;
¹³ his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach;
he runs upon me like a warrior.

Psalm 3:1-8: ¹ O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
² Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah
³ But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
⁴ I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah
⁵ I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
⁶ I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
⁷ Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
⁸ Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people!

Psalm 35:15-17: ¹⁵ But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing.
¹⁶ Like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
¹⁷ O Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!

Psalm 37:12-15: ¹² The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.
¹³ The Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
¹⁴ The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright.
¹⁵ Their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 58:1-8: ¹ Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
² No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
³ The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
⁴ Their venom is like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
⁵ They are like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
⁶ O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
⁷ O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
⁸ Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Psalm 112:1-10: ¹ Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
² His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
⁴ Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
⁵ It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
⁶ For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.
⁷ He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
⁸ His heart is steady; he will not be afraid. Until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.
⁹ He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.
¹⁰ The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

Proverbs 10:26-32: ²⁶ Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
so is the sluggard to those who send him.
²⁷ The fear of the Lord prolongs life,
but the years of the wicked will be short.
²⁸ The hope of the righteous brings joy,
but the expectation of the wicked will perish.
²⁹ The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,
but destruction to evildoers.
³⁰ The righteous will never be removed,
but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
³¹ The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,
but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
³² The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

Proverbs 25:19-20: ¹⁹ Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.
²⁰ Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.

Song of Solomon 4:1-7: ¹ Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
² Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young.
³ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
⁴ Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
⁵ Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁶ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.
⁷ You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Isaiah 41:10-16: ¹⁰ fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
¹¹ Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.
¹² You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.
¹³ For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
¹⁴ Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁵ Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;
¹⁶ You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

Jeremiah 31:27-30: ²⁷ “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
²⁸ And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord.
²⁹ In those days they shall no longer say: “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
³⁰ But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Lamentations 3:1-16: ¹ I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of his wrath;
² He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
³ Surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day.
⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
⁵ He has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
⁶ He has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
⁷ He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy.
⁸ though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
⁹ He has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
¹⁰ He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;
¹¹ He turned to me his hand all the day.
¹² He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
¹³ He pierced my kidneys with his arrows;
¹⁴ I have become the laughingstock of all peoples,
the object of their taunts all day long.
¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
¹⁶ He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;

Daniel 7:1-8: ¹ In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.
² Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.
³ And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.
⁴ The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.
⁵ And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’
⁶ After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.
⁷ After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
⁸ I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Joel 1:1-7: ¹ The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel:
² Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
³ Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.
⁴ What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
⁵ Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
⁶ For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
⁷ He has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; he has stripped it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

Amos 4:6-13: ⁶ “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
⁷ “I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;”
⁸ So two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
⁹ “I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;
yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
¹¹ “I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
¹³ For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Micah 3:1-4: ³ And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
Is it not for you to know justice?
² you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin from off my people
and their flesh from off their bones,
³ who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
⁴ Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

Matthew 8:5-13: ⁵ When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him,
⁶ “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.”
⁷ And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
⁸ The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.
⁹ For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
¹⁰ When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.
¹¹ I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
¹² while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
¹³ And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

Matthew 13:36-43: ³⁶ Then he left the crowds and went into the house.
³⁷ He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
³⁸ The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
³⁹ and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
⁴⁰ Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
⁴¹ The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,
⁴² and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
⁴³ Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Matthew 13:47-50: ⁴⁷ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.”
⁴⁸ When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.
⁴⁹ So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous.
⁵⁰ and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:1-14: And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
² “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,
³ and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.
⁴ Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”
⁵ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
⁶ The rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
⁷ The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
⁸ Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
⁹ Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.
¹⁰ And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
¹¹ “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
¹² And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
¹³ Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen.

Matthew 24:45-51: ⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?”
⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
⁴⁷ Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.
⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
⁴⁹ and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,
⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know.
⁵¹ and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 13:22-30: ²² He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.
²³ And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them,
²⁴ “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
²⁵ When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’
²⁶ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’
²⁷ But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’
²⁸ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
²⁹ And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.
³⁰ And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Acts 7:51-60: ⁵¹ “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.”
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
You who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.
⁵⁴ Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.
⁵⁵ But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
⁵⁶ And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
⁵⁷ But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.
⁵⁸ Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
⁵⁹ And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
⁶⁰ Then falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:50-58: ⁵⁰ I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
⁵¹ Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
⁵³ For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
⁵⁴ “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’”
⁵⁵ “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Hebrews 11:32-40: ³² And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—
³³ who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
³⁵ Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
³⁶ Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated.
³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
³⁹ And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
⁴⁰ since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

Revelation 9:1-11: ¹ And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
² He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
³ Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
⁴ They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
⁵ They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.
⁶ And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
⁷ In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
⁸ They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
⁹ And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
¹⁰ They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
¹¹ They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.