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Lexicon :: Strong's H6106 - ʿeṣem

Aa
עֶצֶם
Transliteration
ʿeṣem
Pronunciation
eh'tsem
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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 BoxGen 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly keep you in mind; and you are to take my bones away with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:14 - And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:21 - And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:28 - And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:29 - For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:30 - And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:12 - Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:48

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:48 - That same day the Lord said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:2 - Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:29 - And when he had come to his house, he got his knife, and took the woman, cutting her up bone by bone into twelve parts, which he sent through all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:13 - And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:1 - Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:12 - You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:13 - And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:13 - And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14 - And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:21 - And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body and the bodies of his sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their bones to rest under the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5 - And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:14 - Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:11 - His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

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