Lexicon :: Strong's G3747 - osteon

And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called “woman,”

for she was taken from man.

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”[fn]

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”

“You must not leave any of it until morning; any part of it left until morning you must burn.

“It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”

“they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

“Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

“A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[fn] It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

“Please speak in the hearing of all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you or that one man rule over you? ’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”[fn]

When he entered his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and then sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

Afterward, they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.[fn]

“You are my brothers, my flesh and blood.[fn] So why should you be the last to restore the king? ’

he went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies the day the Philistines killed Saul at Gilboa.

The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD: “Altar, altar, this is what the LORD says, ‘A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’ ”

After he had buried 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,

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a raiding party, so they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. When he touched Elisha’s bones, the man revived and stood up!

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar. He defiled it according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God[fn] who proclaimed these things.

So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of those high places, and he burned human bones on the altars. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak[fn] in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.[fn]

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

“But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

fear and trembling came over me

and made all my bones shake.

so that I prefer strangling[fn] —

death rather than life in this body.[fn]

“You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and wove me together with bones and tendons.

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

His frame may be full of youthful vigor,

but it will lie down with him in dust.

Night pierces my bones,

but my gnawing pains never rest.

My skin blackens and flakes off,[fn]

and my bones burn with fever.

A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain

and constant distress in his bones,

His flesh wastes away to nothing,[fn]

and his unseen bones stick out.

and to be gracious to him and say,

“Spare him from going down to the Pit;

I have found a ransom,”

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak;[fn]

heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking;

I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are disjointed;

my heart is like wax,

melting within me.

I can count all my bones;

people[fn] look and stare at me.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my strength has failed

because of my iniquity,[fn]

and my bones waste away.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle

from my groaning all day long.

He protects all his bones;

not one of them is broken.

All my bones will say,

“LORD, who is like you,

rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,

the poor or the needy from one who robs him? ”

There is no soundness in my body

because of your indignation;

there is no health[fn] in my bones

because of my sin.

My adversaries taunt me,

as if crushing my bones,

while all day long they say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

Let me hear joy and gladness;

let the bones you have crushed rejoice.