Bosom
חֵיקStrong’s H2436cheq
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Cheq is the Hebrew word usually translated “bosom your”, “bosom my” and “bosom their”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.”
Meaning
- Bosom, hollow, bottom, midst
How it's translated
- in bosom your 5
- bosom your 4
- in bosom my 3
- bosom their 3
- bosom of 3
- in bosom his 2
- bosom his 2
- and in bosom his 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 5
- 1 Kings 4
- Psalms 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Isaiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 4:6And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
- Exodus 4:7And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
- Numbers 11:12Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
- Deuteronomy 13:6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
- Deuteronomy 28:54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
- Deuteronomy 28:56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
All 34 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֵיק cheq · bosom
: embrace/chest bosom, hollow, bottom, midst
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bosom” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BO'SOM, noun
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- The breast of a human being and the parts adjacent.
- The folds or covering of clothes about the breast.
- Embrace, as with the arms; inclosure; compass; often implying friendship or affection; as, to live in the bosom of a church.
- The breast, as inclosing the heart; or the interior of the breast, considered as the seat of the passions.“Anger resteth in the bosom of fools” Ecclesiastes 7:9“Their soul was poured into their mother's bosom” Lamentations 2:12
All definitions and other forms of “bosom”
- The breast, or its interior, considered as a close place, the receptacle of secrets.“If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom” Job 31:33
- Any inclosed place; the interior; as the bosom of the earth or of the deep.
- The tender affections; kindness; favor; as the son of his bosom; the wife of thy bosom“He shall carry the lambs in his bosom” Isaiah 40:11
- The arms, or embrace of the arms. Psalms 129:7
- Inclination; desire. [Not used.]
BO'SOM, verb transitive
To inclose in the bosom; to keep with care.
- To conceal; to hide from view.
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.