Lexicon :: Strong's H2436 - ḥêq

The LORD also said to him, “Put your hand into your robe [where it covers your chest].” So he put his hand into his robe, and when he took it out, his hand was [fn]leprous, as white as snow.

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or [fn]the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as [precious to you as] your own life (soul), entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (gods whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

But the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb

Which he had purchased and nourished;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It ate his food, drank from his cup, it lay in his arms,

And was like a daughter to him.

Whom I, even I, will see for myself,

And my eyes will see Him and not another!

My heart faints within me.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (mourning garment);

I humbled my soul with fasting,

And I prayed with my head bowed on my chest.

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?

Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!

And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold

The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];

How I bear in [fn]my heart the reproach of all the many peoples,

Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman

And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?

Can a man take fire to his chest

And his clothes not be burned?

The lot is cast into the lap,

[fn]But its every decision is from the LORD.

A wicked man receives a bribe from the [hidden] pocket

To pervert the ways of justice.

A gift in secret subdues anger,

And a bribe [hidden] in the pocket, strong wrath.

Do not be eager in your heart to be angry,

For anger dwells in the heart of fools.

He will protect His flock like a shepherd,

He will gather the lambs in His arm,

He will carry them in His bosom;

He will gently and carefully lead those nursing their young.

“Indeed, it is written before Me,

I will not keep silent, but I will repay;

I will even repay it [directly] into their [fn]arms,

They cry to their mothers,

“Where is grain and wine?”

As they faint like a wounded man

In the streets of the city,

As their life [slips away and] is poured out

In their mothers’ arms.

“And these are the measurements of the altar [of burnt offering] in cubits (the cubit being a [long] cubit [the length of a forearm] and a hand width): the [fn]base shall be a cubit [long] and a cubit wide, with its border on its edge all around it of a span [in width]. And this shall be the height of the [fn]base of the altar.

Do not trust in a neighbor [because of the moral corruption in the land];

Do not have confidence in a friend.

Guard the doors of your mouth

From her who lies in your bosom.