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Lexicon :: Strong's H6106 - ʿeṣem

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עֶצֶם
Transliteration
ʿeṣem
Pronunciation
eh'tsem
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1673c

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: עצם.

Strong’s Definitions

עֶצֶם ʻetsem, eh'tsem; from H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pronoun) selfsame:—body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 126x

The KJV translates Strong's H6106 in the following manner: bone (104x), selfsame (11x), same (5x), body (2x), very (2x), life (1x), strength (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 126x
The KJV translates Strong's H6106 in the following manner: bone (104x), selfsame (11x), same (5x), body (2x), very (2x), life (1x), strength (1x).

  1. bone, essence, substance

    1. bone

      1. body, limbs, members, external body

    2. bone (of animal)

    3. substance, self

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶצֶם ʻetsem, eh'tsem; from H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pronoun) selfsame:—body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.
STRONGS H6106: Abbreviations
I. עֶ֫צֶם 125 noun femininePsalm 35:10 (with pronoun masculine Ezekiel 37:5, 6 etc., compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896). 73) bone, substance, self; — absolute י׳ Genesis 2:23 +; עָ֑צֶם; Proverbs 15:30; Proverbs 16:24; construct עֶצֶם Exodus 24:10 +; suffix עַצְמִי Job 19:20 +, etc.; plural עֲצָמוֺת 2 Kings 23:16 +; construct עַצְמוֺת Joshua 24:22 +; suffix עַצְמֹתַי Job 4:14 +, etc.; also עֲצָמִים Ezekiel 24:4 +, suffix עֲצָמַי Genesis 2:23 +, etc.; —
1. bone:
a. of living person Micah 3:2, 3(hyperbole), Job 10:11; Job 19:20; Lamentations 4:8; Psalm 102:6; Ecclesiastes 11:5 +; figurative of close relationship † עֶצָם מֵעֲצָמַי Genesis 2:23, compare Genesis 29:14 (both J), Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1 = 1 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Samuel 19:13; 2 Samuel 19:14 (all + בָּשָׂר).
b. ע׳ + בָּשָׂר = body, Job 2:5, plural = bodily frame Jeremiah 20:9 (simile), limbs, members, לַעֲצָמֶיהָ Judges 9:29 i.e. limb by limb (GFM); as seat of vigour Job 20:11, etc.
c. (poetry) as seat of disease and pain Job 30:17, 30 and (especially of personified Israel) Psalm 22:15; Psalm 31:11; Psalm 102:4; Lamentations 1:13; Habakkuk 3:16 +.
d. plural as representing entire person = one's whole being, (especially of personified Israel) Psalm 6:3 (|| נֶפֶשׁ Psalm 6:4), Psalm 35:10 (|| נֶפֶשׁ Psalm 35:9), Isaiah 66:14; of individual (including physical and moral) Proverbs 3:8; Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 15:30; Proverbs 16:24.
e. singular = external body Lamentations 4:7 Ew Th and others, but dubious; Bi Bu bones (= branches) of coral (פְּנִינִים); Löhr עוֺרָם their skin.
f. especially of dead Numbers 19:16, 18 (P), Ezekiel 37:1 +; often (plural) = remains Amos 6:10; Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19 (twice in verse); Joshua 24:32 (all E) +.
2. bone of animal Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12 (both P); Ezekiel 24:4, 5 (symbolic); of (living) hippopotamus Job 40:18.
† 3. singular substance, self (compare גֶּרֶם 3): הַשָּׁמַיִם כְּע׳ Exodus 24:10 (JE), like the substance of the sky = the sky itself; תֻּמּוֺ בְּע׳ Job 21:23 i.e. full prosperity; especially אֶתעֿ׳ הַיּוֺם הַזֶּה Ezekiel 24:2 this selfsame day, וגו׳ בְּע׳ Ezekiel 24:2; Ezekiel 40:1; Genesis 7:13; Genesis 17:23, 26; Exodus 12:17, 41, 51; Leviticus 23:21, 28, 29, 30; Deuteronomy 32:48; Joshua 5:11 (all P), וגו׳ עַדעֿ׳ Ezekiel 2:3; Leviticus 23:14 (P), Joshua 10:27 (R). — Ezekiel 24:5a read הָעֵצִים (Bö Ew and others); Ezekiel 24:10 strike out הָעֲצָמוֺת (Co Toy); Job 7:15 read מֵעַצְּבוֺתָ֑י (Reiske Me Bu Du and others); Psalm 53:6 read perhaps מֵעֲצַת (compare || Psalm 14:6 Bae; see Hup Che and others); Psalm 69:5 read מֵעַצְמוֺתַי (for MT מַצְמִיתַי), Syriac Version Ol Che Bae and others.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:23; 2:23; 2:23; 7:13; 17:23; 17:26; 29:14; 50:25

Exodus

12:17; 12:41; 12:46; 12:51; 13:19; 24:10; 24:10

Leviticus

23:14; 23:21; 23:28; 23:29; 23:30

Numbers

9:12; 19:16; 19:18

Deuteronomy

32:48

Joshua

5:11; 10:27; 24:22; 24:32

Judges

9:2; 9:29

2 Samuel

5:1; 19:13; 19:14

2 Kings

23:16

1 Chronicles

11:1

Job

2:5; 4:14; 7:15; 10:11; 19:20; 19:20; 20:11; 21:23; 30:17; 30:30; 40:18

Psalms

6:3; 6:4; 14:6; 22:15; 31:11; 35:9; 35:10; 35:10; 53:6; 69:5; 102:4; 102:6

Proverbs

3:8; 14:30; 15:30; 15:30; 16:24; 16:24

Ecclesiastes

11:5

Isaiah

66:14

Jeremiah

20:9

Lamentations

1:13; 4:7; 4:8

Ezekiel

2:3; 24:2; 24:2; 24:4; 24:4; 24:5; 24:5; 24:10; 37:1; 37:5; 37:6; 40:1

Amos

6:10

Micah

3:2; 3:3

Habakkuk

3:16

H6106

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6106 matches the Hebrew עֶצֶם (ʿeṣem),
which occurs 126 times in 108 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Job 21:23–Eze 37:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:23 - One dies in his full vigor,
being wholly at ease and secure,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - his pails[fn] full of milk
and the marrow of his bones moist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 - My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
and with continual strife in his bones,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:21 - His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
and his bones that were not seen stick out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:18 - His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like bars of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2 - Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing;
heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14 - I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17 - I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:3 - For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:20 - He keeps all his bones;
not one of them is broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - All my bones shall say,
“O LORD, who is like you,
delivering the poor
from him who is too strong for him,
the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:3 - There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 - As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8 - Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 53:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:5 - There they are, in great terror,
where there is no terror!
For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:3 - For my days pass away like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:5 - Because of my loud groaning
my bones cling to my flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - He clothed himself with cursing as his coat;
may it soak[fn] into his body like water,
like oil into his bones!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:8 - It will be healing to your flesh[fn]
and refreshment[fn] to your bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:4 - An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:30 - A tranquil[fn] heart gives life to the flesh,
but envy[fn] makes the bones rot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:30 - The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,
and good news refreshes[fn] the bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:24 - Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb[fn] of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 - I calmed myself[fn] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 - And the LORD will guide you continually
and satisfy your desire in scorched places
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14 - You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants,
and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 - “At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - Concerning the prophets:
My heart is broken within me;
all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the LORD
and because of his holy words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13 - “From on high he sent fire;
into my bones[fn] he made it descend;
he spread a net for my feet;
he turned me back;
he has left me stunned,
faint all the day long.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:4 - He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
he has broken my bones;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form[fn] was like sapphire.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Now their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:2 - “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:4 - put in it the pieces of meat,
all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder;
fill it with choice bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:5 - Take the choicest one of the flock;
pile the logs[fn] under it;
boil it well;
seethe also its bones in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:10 - Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices,[fn] and let the bones be burned up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27 - And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:1 - The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley;[fn] it was full of bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:3 - And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:4 - Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:5 - Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath[fn] to enter you, and you shall live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:7 - So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling,[fn] and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

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