Spine
עָצֶהStrong’s H6096atseh (a-tseh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Atseh is the Hebrew word usually translated “backbone”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,”
Meaning
- Spine, backbone, os sacrumeither spine or os sacrum
How it's translated
- the backbone 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עָצֶה atseh · spine
1) spine, backbone, os sacrum 1a) either spine or os sacrum 1a1) bone close to fat-tail
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPINE, noun
[Latin]
- The back bone of an animal.
- The shin of the leg.
- A thorn; a sharp process from the woody part of a plant.
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.