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Lexicon :: Strong's G3747 - osteon

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ὀστέον
Transliteration
osteon (Key)
Pronunciation
os-teh'-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

ὀστέον ostéon, os-teh'-on; of uncertain affinity; a bone:—bone.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's G3747 in the following manner: bone (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's G3747 in the following manner: bone (5x).

  1. a bone

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὀστέον ostéon, os-teh'-on; of uncertain affinity; a bone:—bone.
STRONGS G3747:
ὀστέον, contracted ὀστοῦν, genitive ὀστέου, τό (akin to Latinos,ossis; Curtius, § 213, cf., p. 41), a bone: John 19:36; plural ὀστέα, Luke 24:39; genitive ὀστέων (on these uncontracted forms cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 157); Winers Grammar, § 8, 2 d.; (Buttmann, p. 13 (12))), Matthew 23:27; Ephesians 5:30 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Hebrews 11:22. (From Homer down; the Sept. very often for עֶצֶם.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
23:27
Luke
24:39
John
19:36
Ephesians
5:30
Hebrews
11:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3747 matches the Greek ὀστέον (osteon),
which occurs 108 times in 89 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 2:23–Psa 51:8)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23

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 29:14

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

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 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:10 - Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 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 BoxExo 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 BoxNum 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

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

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 BoxJos 24:32

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 BoxJdg 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

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 Box1Sa 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 Box2Sa 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 Box2Sa 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 Box2Sa 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 Box2Sa 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 Box2Sa 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 Box2Sa 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 Box1Ki 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 Box1Ki 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 Box2Ki 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 Box2Ki 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 Box2Ki 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 Box2Ki 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 Box2Ki 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 Box1Ch 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 Box1Ch 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 Box2Ch 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 BoxJob 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 BoxJob 4:14

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 BoxJob 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 BoxJob 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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 - My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:21 - Their flesh wastes away to nothing, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2 - Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17 - All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction,[fn] and my bones grow weak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:3 - When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:20 - he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, LORD? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:3 - Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 - My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8 - Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

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