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Lexicon :: Strong's H2436 - ḥêq

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חֵיק
Transliteration
ḥêq
Pronunciation
khake
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose
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TWOT Reference: 629a

Strong’s Definitions

חֵיק chêyq, khake; or חֵק chêq; and חוֹק chôwq; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively):—bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's H2436 in the following manner: bosom (32x), bottom (3x), lap (1x), midst (1x), within (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's H2436 in the following manner: bosom (32x), bottom (3x), lap (1x), midst (1x), within (1x), variant (1x).

  1. bosom, hollow, bottom, midst

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֵיק chêyq, khake; or חֵק chêq; and חוֹק chôwq; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively):—bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.
STRONGS H2436: Abbreviations
† [חוק] noun [masculine] bosom, Psalm 74:11 Kt חוקך (but read Qr חֵיקְךָ, see following).

† חֵיק, חֵק noun [masculine] bosom (Late Hebrew id.) — absolute חֵיק Ezekiel 43:17; Proverbs 16:33 + Ezekiel 43:13 (Co חיקו, compare ZKW1883, pp. 67ff.; חֵיקֹה DrSm xxxi), חֵק Proverbs 21:14; construct חֵיק 1 Kings 22:35 + 3 times + Ezekiel 43:14 (Co חיקו) חֵק Proverbs 5:20 (omitted by accident in Baer, compare Stron the passage) Proverbs 17:23 suffix חֵיקִי 1 Kings 3:20; Psalm 89:51; חֵקִי Job 19:27 etc.; elsewhere always plene with suffix; חוקף Kt Psalm 74:11 (Qr חֵיקְךָ); — bosom, specifically
1. of fold of garment, at breast Exodus 4:6 (twice in verse); Exodus 4:7 (3 times in verse) (all J), Proverbs 6:27; Proverbs 16:33, metaphor of י׳ Psalm 74:11; שֹׁחַד בח׳ Proverbs 21:14 is a hidden reward (concealed in bosom; || מַתָּן בַּסֵּתֶר); שֹׁחַד טֵחֵק Proverbs 17:23 is a gift secretly given; figurative, requite into bosom Isaiah 65:6, 7; Psalm 35:13; Psalm 79:12; Jeremiah 32:18.
2. carry (נָשָׂא) in bosom, Moses the people Numbers 11:12 (JE); Naomi, Ruth's child Ruth 4:16, compare 1 Kings 3:20 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 17:19; ewe lamb 2 Samuel 12:3; Isaiah 40:11 (metaphor); Lamentations 2:12 of infants dying in their mothers' arms; figurative of carrying insults in one's bosom Psalm 89:51 (read probably כְּלִמַּת for כֹּל, see Bi Che).
3. bosom as part of body:
a. external, lie in bosom, of wife שׁככת Micah 7:5, compare 2 Samuel 12:8; concubine Genesis 16:5 (J) compare 1 Kings 1:2; אֵשֶׁת חיק(ךׅ Deuteronomy 13:7; Deuteronomy 28:54, compare also Proverbs 5:20 תְּחַבֵּק חֵק נָכְּרִיָה; אֹישׁ חֵיקָהּ Deuteronomy 28:56.
b. internal, anger resteth כסילים בה׳ Ecclesiastes 7:9; כָּלוּ כִלְֹיתַי בְּחֵקִי Job 19:27 my reins are consumed within me; Job 23:12 (read בְּחֵקִי for מֵחֻקִּי, so Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Ol Me Stu Di) in my breast have I hidden the words of his mouth (compare בְּלִבִּי Psalm 119:11); figurative of interior of chariot 1 Kings 22:35 הרכב ח׳; of hollow bottom of altar Ezekiel 43:13, 14, 17 (Sm Rinne; Co Grundeinfassung).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

16:5

Exodus

4:6; 4:7

Numbers

11:12

Deuteronomy

13:7; 28:54; 28:56

Ruth

4:16

2 Samuel

12:3; 12:8

1 Kings

1:2; 3:20; 3:20; 17:19; 22:35; 22:35

Job

19:27; 19:27; 23:12

Psalms

35:13; 74:11; 74:11; 74:11; 79:12; 89:51; 89:51; 119:11

Proverbs

5:20; 5:20; 6:27; 16:33; 16:33; 17:23; 17:23; 21:14; 21:14

Ecclesiastes

7:9

Isaiah

40:11; 65:6; 65:7

Jeremiah

32:18

Lamentations

2:12

Ezekiel

43:13; 43:13; 43:14; 43:14; 43:17; 43:17

Micah

7:5

H2436

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Strong's Number H2436 matches the Hebrew חֵיק (ḥêq),
which occurs 38 times in 34 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Again, the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.”[fn] And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous[fn] like snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace[fn] or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:54

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces,[fn] and to the last of the children whom he has left,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:56

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[fn] to her son and to her daughter,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:16 - Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms,[fn] and it was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms,[fn] that my lord the king may be warm.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:27 - whom I shall see for myself,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - But I, when they were sick—
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed[fn] on my chest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the fold of your garment[fn] and destroy them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12 - Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors
the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50 - Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
and how I bear in my heart the insults[fn] of all the many nations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:33 - The lot is cast into the lap,
but its every decision is from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 - The wicked accepts a bribe in secret[fn]
to pervert the ways of justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:14 - A gift in secret averts anger,
and a concealed bribe,[fn] strong wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Be not quick in your spirit to become angry,
for anger lodges in the heart[fn] of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11 - He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 - Behold, it is written before me:
“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their lap

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,
says the LORD;
because they made offerings on the mountains
and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18 - You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13 - “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth):[fn] its base shall be one cubit high[fn] and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span[fn] around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 - Put no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms;[fn]
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