עֶצֶם etsem

Hebrew word for “bone” · Strong’s H6106 · used 126 times in 108 verses

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Meaning

: bone/limb; 1) bone, essence, substance; 1a) bone; 1a1) body, limbs, members, external body; 1b) bone (of animal); 1c) substance, self

Senses in the lexicon

• bone (105)
• bone: same (19)
• bone: body (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for etsem in context, with how often each is used:

• bones 85
• bone 19
• substance 18
• more than bones 1
• limbs 1
• like bones 1
• like the substance 1

Where it is used

Also in 12 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 37 (6), Leviticus 23 (5), Exodus 12 (4), 2 Kings 23 (4), Ezekiel 24 (4), 2 Samuel 21 (3), Genesis 17 (2), Numbers 19 (2), 2 Samuel 19 (2), 1 Kings 13 (2)

Forms

• עצמות 22
• בעצם 17
• עצם 9
• עצמי 8
• עצמותי 7
• העצמות 5
• עצמותיו 4
• עצמתי 3
• עצמתיו 3
• ועצם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with etsem more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 19
• זֶה zeh “this” 20
• קֶבֶר qever “grave” 7
• עוֹר or “skin” 7
• אָדָם adam “man” 10
• קָבַר qavar “to bury” 7
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 7
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 9
• שָׁם sham “there” 8
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 7
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 5
• רָקָב raqav “rottenness” 3

Key verses

The verses using etsem that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 24:10 — And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
• Psalms 22:14 — I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
• Psalms 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Psalms 35:10 — All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that…
• Isaiah 58:11 — And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring…
• Jeremiah 20:9 — Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was…
• Lamentations 1:13 — From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate…
• Ezekiel 2:3 — And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have…
• Ezekiel 37:1 — The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
• Ezekiel 37:11 — Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for…
• Micah 3:2 — Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Habakkuk 3:16 — When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.