Lexicon :: Strong's H2436 - ḥêq

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering![fn] I put my slave in your arms,[fn] and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the LORD judge between me and you.”

In addition the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

“Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nursing mother carries a baby,’ to the land that you swore to give their ancestors?

“If your brother, the son of your mother,[fn] or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods’ ​— ​which neither you nor your ancestors have known,

“The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,

“The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,

Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a mother to him.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

“I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms,[fn] and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.

So his servants said to him, “Let us[fn] search for a young virgin for my lord the king. She is to attend the king and be his caregiver. She is to lie by your side so that my lord the king will get warm.”

“She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him in her arms, and she put her dead son in my arms.

But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. He died that evening, and blood from his wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.

I will see him myself;

my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.[fn]

My heart longs[fn] within me.

Yet when they were sick,

my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled myself with fasting,

and my prayer was genuine.[fn]

Why do you hold back your hand?

Stretch out[fn] your right hand and destroy them!

Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors

the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.

Remember, Lord, the ridicule against your servants —

in my heart I carry abuse from all the peoples —

Why, my son, would you lose yourself

with a forbidden woman

or embrace a wayward woman?

Can a man embrace fire

and his clothes not be burned?

The lot is cast into the lap,

but its every decision is from the LORD.

A wicked person secretly takes a bribe

to subvert the course of justice.

A secret gift soothes anger,

and a covert bribe, fierce rage.

Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry,

for anger abides in the heart of fools.

He protects his flock like a shepherd;

he gathers the lambs in his arms

and carries them in the fold of his garment.

He gently leads those that are nursing.

“Look, it is written in front of me:

I will not keep silent, but I will repay;

I will repay them fully[fn]

“You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Armies,

They cry out to their mothers,

“Where is the grain and wine? ”

as they faint like the wounded

in the streets of the city,

as their life pours out

in the arms of their mothers.

“These are the measurements of the altar in units of length (each unit being the standard length plus three inches):[fn] The gutter is 21 inches[fn] deep and 21 inches wide, with a rim of nine inches[fn] around its edge. This is the base[fn] of the altar.

“The ledge is 24 ¹/₂ feet[fn] long by 24 ¹/₂ feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10 ¹/₂ inches,[fn] and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.”

Do not rely on a friend;

don’t trust in a close companion.

Seal your mouth

from the woman who lies in your arms.