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Lexicon :: Strong's H6106 - ʿeṣem

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עֶצֶם
Transliteration
ʿeṣem
Pronunciation
eh'tsem
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1673c

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: עצם.

Strong’s Definitions

עֶצֶם ʻetsem, eh'tsem; from H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pronoun) selfsame:—body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 126x

The KJV translates Strong's H6106 in the following manner: bone (104x), selfsame (11x), same (5x), body (2x), very (2x), life (1x), strength (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 126x
The KJV translates Strong's H6106 in the following manner: bone (104x), selfsame (11x), same (5x), body (2x), very (2x), life (1x), strength (1x).

  1. bone, essence, substance

    1. bone

      1. body, limbs, members, external body

    2. bone (of animal)

    3. substance, self

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶצֶם ʻetsem, eh'tsem; from H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pronoun) selfsame:—body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.
STRONGS H6106: Abbreviations
I. עֶ֫צֶם 125 noun femininePsalm 35:10 (with pronoun masculine Ezekiel 37:5, 6 etc., compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896). 73) bone, substance, self; — absolute י׳ Genesis 2:23 +; עָ֑צֶם; Proverbs 15:30; Proverbs 16:24; construct עֶצֶם Exodus 24:10 +; suffix עַצְמִי Job 19:20 +, etc.; plural עֲצָמוֺת 2 Kings 23:16 +; construct עַצְמוֺת Joshua 24:22 +; suffix עַצְמֹתַי Job 4:14 +, etc.; also עֲצָמִים Ezekiel 24:4 +, suffix עֲצָמַי Genesis 2:23 +, etc.; —
1. bone:
a. of living person Micah 3:2, 3(hyperbole), Job 10:11; Job 19:20; Lamentations 4:8; Psalm 102:6; Ecclesiastes 11:5 +; figurative of close relationship † עֶצָם מֵעֲצָמַי Genesis 2:23, compare Genesis 29:14 (both J), Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1 = 1 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Samuel 19:13; 2 Samuel 19:14 (all + בָּשָׂר).
b. ע׳ + בָּשָׂר = body, Job 2:5, plural = bodily frame Jeremiah 20:9 (simile), limbs, members, לַעֲצָמֶיהָ Judges 9:29 i.e. limb by limb (GFM); as seat of vigour Job 20:11, etc.
c. (poetry) as seat of disease and pain Job 30:17, 30 and (especially of personified Israel) Psalm 22:15; Psalm 31:11; Psalm 102:4; Lamentations 1:13; Habakkuk 3:16 +.
d. plural as representing entire person = one's whole being, (especially of personified Israel) Psalm 6:3 (|| נֶפֶשׁ Psalm 6:4), Psalm 35:10 (|| נֶפֶשׁ Psalm 35:9), Isaiah 66:14; of individual (including physical and moral) Proverbs 3:8; Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 15:30; Proverbs 16:24.
e. singular = external body Lamentations 4:7 Ew Th and others, but dubious; Bi Bu bones (= branches) of coral (פְּנִינִים); Löhr עוֺרָם their skin.
f. especially of dead Numbers 19:16, 18 (P), Ezekiel 37:1 +; often (plural) = remains Amos 6:10; Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19 (twice in verse); Joshua 24:32 (all E) +.
2. bone of animal Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12 (both P); Ezekiel 24:4, 5 (symbolic); of (living) hippopotamus Job 40:18.
† 3. singular substance, self (compare גֶּרֶם 3): הַשָּׁמַיִם כְּע׳ Exodus 24:10 (JE), like the substance of the sky = the sky itself; תֻּמּוֺ בְּע׳ Job 21:23 i.e. full prosperity; especially אֶתעֿ׳ הַיּוֺם הַזֶּה Ezekiel 24:2 this selfsame day, וגו׳ בְּע׳ Ezekiel 24:2; Ezekiel 40:1; Genesis 7:13; Genesis 17:23, 26; Exodus 12:17, 41, 51; Leviticus 23:21, 28, 29, 30; Deuteronomy 32:48; Joshua 5:11 (all P), וגו׳ עַדעֿ׳ Ezekiel 2:3; Leviticus 23:14 (P), Joshua 10:27 (R). — Ezekiel 24:5a read הָעֵצִים (Bö Ew and others); Ezekiel 24:10 strike out הָעֲצָמוֺת (Co Toy); Job 7:15 read מֵעַצְּבוֺתָ֑י (Reiske Me Bu Du and others); Psalm 53:6 read perhaps מֵעֲצַת (compare || Psalm 14:6 Bae; see Hup Che and others); Psalm 69:5 read מֵעַצְמוֺתַי (for MT מַצְמִיתַי), Syriac Version Ol Che Bae and others.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:23; 2:23; 2:23; 7:13; 17:23; 17:26; 29:14; 50:25

Exodus

12:17; 12:41; 12:46; 12:51; 13:19; 24:10; 24:10

Leviticus

23:14; 23:21; 23:28; 23:29; 23:30

Numbers

9:12; 19:16; 19:18

Deuteronomy

32:48

Joshua

5:11; 10:27; 24:22; 24:32

Judges

9:2; 9:29

2 Samuel

5:1; 19:13; 19:14

2 Kings

23:16

1 Chronicles

11:1

Job

2:5; 4:14; 7:15; 10:11; 19:20; 19:20; 20:11; 21:23; 30:17; 30:30; 40:18

Psalms

6:3; 6:4; 14:6; 22:15; 31:11; 35:9; 35:10; 35:10; 53:6; 69:5; 102:4; 102:6

Proverbs

3:8; 14:30; 15:30; 15:30; 16:24; 16:24

Ecclesiastes

11:5

Isaiah

66:14

Jeremiah

20:9

Lamentations

1:13; 4:7; 4:8

Ezekiel

2:3; 24:2; 24:2; 24:4; 24:4; 24:5; 24:5; 24:10; 37:1; 37:5; 37:6; 40:1

Amos

6:10

Micah

3:2; 3:3

Habakkuk

3:16

H6106

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6106 matches the Hebrew עֶצֶם (ʿeṣem),
which occurs 126 times in 108 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 2:23–Job 20:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions left Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:46

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:51

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - “God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. They devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces; with their arrows they pierce them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:48 - On that same day the LORD told Moses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - At sunset Joshua gave the order and they took them down from the poles and threw them into the cave where they had been hiding. At the mouth of the cave they placed large rocks, which are there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - And Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[fn] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2 - “Ask all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal’s sons rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember, I am your flesh and blood.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:13 - Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 - All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:12 - You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:13 - David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from there, and the bones of those who had been killed and exposed were gathered up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14 - They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:21 - Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:1 - All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5 - He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and so he purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:14 - fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 - The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

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