Bone
עֶ֫צֶםStrong’s H6106etsem (e-tsem)
Appears in 108 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Etsem is the Hebrew word usually translated “bones of”, “on substance of” and “bones my”. It appears in 108 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Meaning
- Bone, essence, substancebone · bone (of animal) · substance, self
How it's translated
- bones of 19
- on substance of 14
- bones my 13
- bones his 8
- bones 6
- bone my 5
- bones their 5
- the bones 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 15
- Ezekiel 15
- Job 13
- Genesis 6
- Exodus 6
- 2 Samuel 6
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:13In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
- Genesis 17:23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
- Genesis 17:26In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
- Genesis 29:14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
- Genesis 50:25And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
- Exodus 12:17And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
All 108 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫צֶם etsem · bone
: bone/limb 1) bone, essence, substance 1a) bone 1a1) body, limbs, members, external body 1b) bone (of animal) 1c) substance, self
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.