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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:23 - One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and secure;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - His pails[fn] are full of milk,
And the marrow of his bones is moist.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - My bones are pierced in me at night,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 - My skin grows black and falls from me;
My bones burn with fever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - “Man is also chastened with pain on his bed,
And with strong pain in many of his bones,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:21 - His flesh wastes away from sight,
And his bones stick out which once were not seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:18 - His bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:2 - Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak;
O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 has melted within Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17 - I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:3 - When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - All my bones shall say,
“LORD, who is like You,
Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him,
Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:3 - There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my bones
Because of my sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 - As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:8 - Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:5 - There they are in great fear
Where no fear was,
For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you;
You have put them to shame,
Because God has despised them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:3 - For my days are consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:5 - Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my skin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,
As when one plows and breaks up the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:8 - It will be health to your flesh,[fn]
And strength[fn] to your bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:4 - An excellent[fn] wife is the crown of her husband,
But she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:30 - A sound heart is life to the body,
But envy is rottenness to the bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:30 - The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,
And a good report makes the bones healthy.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:24 - Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - As you do not know what is the way of the wind,[fn]
Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child,
So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 - I have considered until morning—
Like a lion,
So He breaks all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 - The LORD will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14 - When you see this, your heart shall rejoice,
And your bones shall flourish like grass;
The hand of the LORD shall be known to His servants,
And His indignation to His enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 - “At that time,” says the LORD, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And I could not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the LORD,
And because of His holy words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13 - “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has spread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:4 - He has aged my flesh and my skin,
And broken my bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her Nazirites[fn] were brighter than snow
And whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Like sapphire in their appearance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - “And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:2 - “Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day—the king of Babylon started his siege against Jerusalem this very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:4 - Gather pieces of meat in it,
Every good piece,
The thigh and the shoulder.
Fill it with choice cuts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:5 - Take the choice of the flock.
Also pile fuel bones under it,
Make it boil well,
And let the cuts simmer in it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:10 - Heap on the wood,
Kindle the fire;
Cook the meat well,
Mix in the spices,
And let the cuts be burned up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27 - They do not lie with the mighty
Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,
Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;
They have laid their swords under their heads,
But their iniquities will be on their bones,
Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:4 - Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:5 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:7 - So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.

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