עֶצֶםʻetsem/eh'tsem/
HebrewH6106126 occurrences (KJV)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV renders it: body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.
Where it appears(showing the first 108 of 126)
- Gen 2:23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”
- Gen 7:13In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth — the sons of Noah — and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship —
- Gen 17:23Abraham 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 foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Gen 17:26In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
- Gen 29:14Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.
- Gen 50:25Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
- Exod 12:17You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
- Exod 12:41At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
- Exod 12:46It must be eaten In one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
- Exod 12:51That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
- Exod 13:19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”
- Exod 24:10They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- Lev 23:14You must not eat bread, or roasted grain, or fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
- Lev 23:21You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
- Lev 23:28You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
- Lev 23:29For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.
- Lev 23:30Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
- Num 9:12They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.
- Num 19:16“Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
- Num 19:18A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.
- Num 24:8God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.
- Deut 32:48Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
- Josh 5:11They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
- Josh 10:27At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
- Josh 24:32They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
- Judg 9:2“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
- Judg 19:29When he had come into his house, he took a knife, and cut up his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
- 1 Sam 31:13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- 2 Sam 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
- 2 Sam 19:12You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
- 2 Sam 19:13Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”
- 2 Sam 21:12So 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, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
- 2 Sam 21:13and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.
- 2 Sam 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
- 1 Kgs 13:2He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”
- 1 Kgs 13:31After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
- 2 Kgs 13:21As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
- 2 Kgs 23:14He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.
- 2 Kgs 23:16As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
- 2 Kgs 23:18He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.
- 2 Kgs 23:20He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chr 10:12all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- 1 Chr 11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
- 2 Chr 34:5He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
- Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
- Job 4:14fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
- Job 7:15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
- Job 10:11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 21:23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
- Job 21:24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
- Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
- Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
- Job 33:21His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
- Job 40:18His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
- Ps 6:2Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
- Ps 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
- Ps 22:17I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
- Ps 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
- Ps 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Ps 34:20He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
- Ps 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
- Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Ps 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
- Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
- Ps 53:5There they were 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 rejected them.
- Ps 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Ps 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
- Ps 109:18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
- Ps 141:7“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
- Prov 3:8It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
- Prov 12:4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
- Prov 14:30The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
- Prov 15:30The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.
- Prov 16:24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Eccl 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
- Isa 38:13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
- Isa 58:11and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
- Isa 66:14You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
- Jer 8:1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his 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;
- Jer 20:9If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I can’t.
- Jer 23:9Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
- Lam 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all day long.
- Lam 3:4He has made my flesh and my skin old; he has broken my bones.
- Lam 4:7Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.
- Lam 4:8Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a stick.
- Ezek 2:3He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
- Ezek 6:5I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
- Ezek 24:2Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
- Ezek 24:4gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
- Ezek 24:5Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled within it.
- Ezek 24:10Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil the meat well, and make the broth thick, and let the bones be burned.
- Ezek 32:27They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
- Ezek 37:1Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
- Ezek 37:3He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.
- Ezek 37:4Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
- Ezek 37:5Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
- Ezek 37:7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
- Ezek 37:11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
- Ezek 39:15Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.
- Ezek 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.
- Amos 2:1Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
- Amos 6:10“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
- Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Mic 3:3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
- Hab 3:16I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.