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Strong's #6106 - עֶצֶם
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- bone, essence, substance
- bone
- body, limbs, members, external body
- bone (of animal)
- substance, self
- bone
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2569) myo (אהתסמ AhTsM) AC: Abundant CO: Bone AB: Abundance: The numerous bones of the body are the strength to the body. [from: yo- as the bones are the tree of the body]
V) myo (אהתסמ AhTsM) - I. Abundant:To be strong in might or numbers. From the abundant number of bones in the body. II. Shut:[Unknown connection to root;] KJV (20): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) increase, mighty, strong, more, broken, close, great, shut - Strongs: H6105 (עָצַם)
Nm) myo (אהתסמ AhTsM) - Bone: KJV (126): bone, selfsame, same, body, life, strength - Strongs: H6106 (עֶצֶם)
Nf1) emyo (אהתסמה AhTsMH) - Abundance: KJV (3): strength, abundance - Strongs: H6109 (עָצְמָה)
dm) mfyo (אהתסומ AhTsWM) - Abundant: KJV (31): strong, mighty, mightier, feeble, great, much - Strongs: H6099 (עָצֻם)
df1) emfyo (אהתסומה AhTsWMH) - Abundance: KJV (1): strong - Strongs: H6110 (עֲצֻמוֹת)
gm) myfo (אהותסמ AhWTsM) - Strength: From the strength of the bones. KJV (3): might, strong, substance - Strongs: H6108 (עֹצֶם)
idf1) emfyot (תאהתסומה TAhTsWMH) - Strength: KJV (1): power - Strongs: H8592 (תַּעֲצֻמוֹת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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 9:29i.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 (מְּנִינִים); 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 21:23i.e. full prosperity; especially ׳אֶתעֿהַיּוֺם 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 ᵑ0מַצְמִיתַי), ᵑ6 Ol Che Bae and others
עֶצֶם f.
(1) bone; so called from its firmness and strength; see the root No. 2. Arab. عَظْمُ, Genesis 2:23; Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12, etc. Plur. עֲצָמִים constr. עַצְמֵי Psalms 6:3, 31:11 32:3 more often also עֲצָמֹות Psalms 51:10; Proverbs 14:30 often used of the bones of the dead (compare יָדֹות, בַּפֹּות), Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32 -2 Samuel 21:1214 ; 2 Kings 23:14, 18 2 Kings 23:18, 20 2 Kings 23:20.
(2) body, bodily form, Lamentations 4:7.
(3) Followed by a genit.; it is used instead of the pronoun itself (compare syn. גֶּרֶם No. 3, and Arab. عين eye, himself); but only used of things, e.g. בְּעֶצֶם הַיֹּום הַזֶּה in that very day, Genesis 7:13, 17:23, 26 Genesis 17:26. Exodus 24:10, כְּעֶצֶם הַשָּׁמַיִם “as the heaven itself.” Job 21:23, בְּעֵצֶם תֻּמֹּו “in his uprightness itself.”
(4) [Ezem, Azem], pr.n. of a town in the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 15:29, 19:3 1 Chronicles 4:29.