Lexicon :: Strong's H6106 - ʿeṣem

And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called “woman,”

for she was taken from man.

On that same day Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, entered the ark, along with Noah’s wife and his three sons’ wives.

So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased ​— ​every male among the members of Abraham’s household ​— ​and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

On that very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”[fn]

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”

“You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your military divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the LORD’s military divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

“It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”

and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.

“You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain[fn] until this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

“On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

“On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the LORD your God.

“they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

“Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

“A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

God brought him out of Egypt;

he is like[fn] the horns of a wild ox for them.

He will feed on enemy nations

and gnaw their bones;

he will strike them with his arrows.

On that same day the LORD spoke to Moses,

The day after Passover they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

At sunset Joshua commanded that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave where they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are still there today.

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[fn] It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

“Please speak in the hearing of all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you or that one man rule over you? ’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”[fn]

When he entered his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and then sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

Afterward, they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.[fn]

“You are my brothers, my flesh and blood.[fn] So why should you be the last to restore the king? ’

he went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies the day the Philistines killed Saul at Gilboa.

The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD: “Altar, altar, this is what the LORD says, ‘A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’ ”

After he had buried 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,

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a raiding party, so they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. When he touched Elisha’s bones, the man revived and stood up!

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar. He defiled it according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God[fn] who proclaimed these things.

So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of those high places, and he burned human bones on the altars. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak[fn] in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.[fn]

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

“But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

fear and trembling came over me

and made all my bones shake.

so that I prefer strangling[fn] —

death rather than life in this body.[fn]

“You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and wove me together with bones and tendons.

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;

I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

His frame may be full of youthful vigor,

but it will lie down with him in dust.