Midvash

עֶצֶםʻetsem

bone, substance, self

Pronunciation: eh'tsem · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6106

Meanings

1. bone

a. of living person (Micah 3:2; Micah 3:3; Job 10:11)

b. ׳ ע + בָּשָׂר = body (Job 2:5; Jeremiah 20:9; Judges 9:29)

c. (poetry) as seat of disease and pain (Job 30:17; Job 30:30; Psalms 22:15)

d. as representing entire person = one's whole being (Psalms 6:3; Psalms 6:4; Psalms 35:10)

e. especially of dead, = external body (Lamentations 4:7; Numbers 19:16; Numbers 19:18)

2. bone (Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Ezekiel 24:4)

3. substance, self, (compare גֶּרֶם 3) (Exodus 24:10; Job 21:23; Ezekiel 24:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 126 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’”
  • Genesis 7:13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.
  • Genesis 17:23 On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him.
  • Genesis 17:26 Both Abraham and his son, Ishmael, were circumcised on that same day,
  • Genesis 29:14 Laban exclaimed, “You really are my own flesh and blood!” After Jacob had stayed with Laban for about a month,
  • Genesis 50:25 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).