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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.
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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 1 / 3 (Gen 2:23–Job 20:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And Adam said:

“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - And Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - ‘So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:46

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - “In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:51

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - ‘You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - ‘And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - “And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - “For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - “And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - ‘They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - ‘Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - ‘A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - “God brings him out of Egypt;
He has strength like a wild ox;
He shall consume the nations, his enemies;
He shall break their bones
And pierce them with his arrows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:48 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses that very same day, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2 - “Please speak in the hearing of all the men of Shechem: ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one reign over you?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - When he entered his house he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and divided her into twelve pieces, limb by limb,[fn] and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:13 - Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 - Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke, saying, “Indeed we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:12 - ‘You are my brethren, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - “And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - Then David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabesh Gilead who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan,[fn] where the Philistines had hung them up, after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:13 - So he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there; and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14 - They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded the prayer for the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s bones shall be burned on you.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - So it was, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:21 - So it was, as they were burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raiders; and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha; and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - He executed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - all the valiant men arose and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons; and they brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:1 - Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, saying, “Indeed we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5 - He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - “But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:14 - Fear came upon me, and trembling,
Which made all my bones shake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than my body.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 - His bones are full of his youthful vigor,
But it will lie down with him in the dust.

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