Breast
חֹבStrong’s H2243chov
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chov is the Hebrew word usually translated “bosom my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:”
Meaning
- Bosom
How it's translated
- in bosom my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֹב chov · breast
bosom
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREAST, noun
brest.
- The soft, protuberant body, adhering to the thorax, which, in females, furnishes milk for infants.“His breasts are full of milk” Job 21:24
- The fore part of the thorax, or the fore part of the human body between the neck and the belly.
- The part of a breast which answers to the breast in man.
- Figuratively, the heart; the conscience; the disposition of the mind; the affections; the seat of the affections and passions.
All definitions and other forms of “breast”
- Formerly, the power of singing.
BREAST, verb transitive
brest. To meet in front; to oppose breast to breast
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.