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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 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be upon you! I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Furthermore the LORD said to him, “Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - “Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to 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, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:54

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - “The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:56

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - “The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse[fn] to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and 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 bosom, and became a nurse to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - “But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - ‘I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you 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, a virgin, be sought for our lord the king, and let her stand before the king, and let her care for him; and let her lie in your bosom, that our lord the king may be warm.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - “So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:35 - The battle increased that day; and the king was propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out from the wound onto the floor 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.
How my heart yearns within me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - But as for me, when they were sick,
My clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting;
And my prayer would return to my own heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:11 - Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:12 - And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom
Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:50

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:50 - Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants—
How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Can a man take fire to his bosom,
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 - A wicked man accepts a bribe behind the back[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 pacifies anger,
And a bribe behind the back,[fn] strong wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:9 - Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry,
For anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11 - He will feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who 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 silence, but will repay—
Even repay into their bosom—

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together,”
Says the LORD,
“Who have burned incense on the mountains
And blasphemed Me on the hills;
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18 - ‘You show lovingkindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them—the Great, the 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 say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
In 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 in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is 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; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - “the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:5 - Do not trust in a friend;
Do not put your confidence in a companion;
Guard the doors of your mouth
From her who lies in your bosom.
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