Bone
גֶּ֫רֶםStrong’s H1634gerem (ge-rem)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gerem is the Hebrew word usually translated “bone”, “bone of” and “limbs its”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:”
Meaning
- Bone, strength, bare?, self?bone · strength, strong-boned · self?, bare? (of stairs)
How it's translated
- bone 3
- bone of 1
- limbs its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Genesis 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 9:13Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
- Job 40:18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
- Proverbs 17:22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- Proverbs 25:15By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
Hebrew dictionary
גֶּ֫רֶם gerem · bone
1) bone, strength, bare?, self? 1a) bone 1b) strength, strong-boned 1c) self?, bare? (of stairs) Aramaic equivalent: ge.rem (גְּרַם "bone" H1635)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BONE, noun
- A firm hard substance of a dull white color, composing some part of the frame of an animal body.
- A piece of bone with fragments of meat adhering to it.
All definitions and other forms of “bone”
BONE, verb transitive
To take out bones from the flesh, as in cookery.
- To put whale bone into stays.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.