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Bosom

חֹ֫צֶןStrong’s H2684

chotsen (cho-tsen)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chotsen is the Hebrew word usually translated “bosom my” and “bosom”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.”
Nehemiah 5:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. Bosom, lap
How it's translated
  • bosom my 1
  • in a bosom 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Nehemiah 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חֹ֫צֶן chotsen · bosom

bosom, lap

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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  1. The breast of a human being and the parts adjacent.
  2. The folds or covering of clothes about the breast.
  3. Embrace, as with the arms; inclosure; compass; often implying friendship or affection; as, to live in the bosom of a church.
  4. 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”
  1. 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
  2. Any inclosed place; the interior; as the bosom of the earth or of the deep.
  3. 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
  4. The arms, or embrace of the arms. Psalms 129:7
  5. Inclination; desire. [Not used.]

BO'SOM, verb transitive

To inclose in the bosom; to keep with care.

  1. 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.