International Standard Bible Encyclopedia BONE; BONESbon (`etsem, `otsem; Aramaic gerem, by extension used for "bony frame," "body," "strength," Psalm 35:10; "the whole man"; Luke 24:39, "flesh and bones" = the solid and tangible framework of the body; figuratively the substance, the idea of a thing, the thing, per se): Figurative: Very often we find the use of these words in metaphorical phrases, in which a disease or a discomfort of the body denotes certain emotions or mental attitudes. Thus the expression "rottenness of the bones" (Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 14:30) signifies the feelings of a man whose wife causes him shame and confusion, or is equivalent to "envy," "jealousy." The translation of the Septuagint in these passages by skolex, "worm," and ses, "maggot," "moth," is incorrect. The same phrase is used in Habakkuk 3:16 for utter dejectedness through the anticipation of approaching evil. Similarly the "shaking of the bones" (Job 4:14) is expressive of fear, and denotes dejection and sadness in Jeremiah 23:9. The "burning of the bones" is found as a symptom of J ob's disease (Job 30:30), and stands for grief, depression of spirits in Psalm 102:3 and Lamentations 1:13, and also for the feeling of Jeremiah, when he attempted to hold back the Divine message (Jeremiah 20:9), while "dryness of bones" (Proverbs 17:22) is the opposite of "good health." Other similar expressions of mental distress are the "piercing of the bones" (Job 30:17), the bones are "troubled" (Psalm 6:2), "out of joint" (Psalm 22:14), "consumed" (Psalm 31:10 the King James Version), "wasted away" or "waxed old" (Psalm 32:3), "broken" (Psalm 51:8 Lamentations 3:4), "ill at rest" (Psalm 38:3), "bone of my bones," etc. (Genesis 2:23), having the same nature, and the nearest relation (2 Samuel 5:1) and affection (Ephesians 5:30). In the last-mentioned passage, the Revised Version (British and American) omits "of his flesh, and of his bones" as an interpolation from Genesis 2:23. The figs. in Micah 3:2, 3 are expressive of the most cruel oppression and murder. Greek 3747. osteon -- a bone ... Word Origin a prim. word Definition a bone NASB Word Usage bone (1), bones (3). bone. Or contracted ostoun (os-toon') of uncertain affinity; a bone -- bone. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3747.htm - 6k 4457. porosis -- a covering with a callous, fig. blindness Strong's Hebrew 6105c. atsam -- to break bones... 6105b, 6105c. atsam. 6106 . to break bones. Transliteration: atsam Short Definition: bones. Word Origin denominative verb from etsem ... /hebrew/6105c.htm - 5k 6108. otsem -- might, bones 1633b. garam -- to break bones, break 1633. garam -- to cut off, reserve 6105. atsam -- to be vast, mighty, numerous 6106. etsem -- bone, substance, self 1635. geram -- a bone 1634. gerem -- a bone, strength Library The Dry Bones and the Spirit of Life Preaching to the Dry Bones. Ezek 37 The Bones and Flesh of Wisdom; the Side Out of which the Spiritual ... But if You Urge that Bones, Different Kinds of Honey... All My Bones Shall Say Ezekiel's vision of the Dry Bones Quoted. The Temple which Christ Says He Will Raise up is the Church. How ... Love is a Far More Glorious Being than Flesh and Bones On the Words in Psalm cxxxix. 15:00 "My Substance or (Bones) was ... This vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the ... Thesaurus Bones (98 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia BONE; BONES. bon (`etsem, `otsem; Aramaic gerem, by extension used for "bony frame," "body," "strength ... /b/bones.htm - 40k Face-bones (1 Occurrence) Ankle-bones (1 Occurrence) Side-bones (1 Occurrence) Marrow (5 Occurrences) Bone (35 Occurrences) Resting-places (27 Occurrences) Rottenness (9 Occurrences) Tombs (27 Occurrences) Graves (37 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Bones (98 Occurrences)Matthew 23:27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Luke 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." John 19:36 For all this took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled which declares, "Not one of His bones shall be broken." Acts 3:7 He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. Ephesians 5:30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. Hebrews 11:22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones. Genesis 2:21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: Genesis 2:23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called'woman,' because she was taken out of Man." Genesis 50:25 Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here." Exodus 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. Exodus 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you." Numbers 9:12 they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof; according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it. Numbers 24:8 God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows. Joshua 24:32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. Judges 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. 1 Samuel 31:13 They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. 2 Samuel 19:12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? 2 Samuel 21:12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; 2 Samuel 21:13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged. 2 Samuel 21:14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land. 1 Kings 13:2 He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, "Altar, altar, thus says Yahweh:'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men's bones on you.'" 1 Kings 13:31 It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. 2 Kings 9:35 And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands. 2 Kings 13:21 It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 2 Kings 23:14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men. 2 Kings 23:16 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. 2 Kings 23:18 He said, "Let him be! Let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. 2 Kings 23:20 He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem. 1 Chronicles 10:12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. 2 Chronicles 34:5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. Job 2:5 But put forth Thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy face.' Job 4:14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. Job 7:15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. Job 10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. Job 19:20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. Job 20:11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust. Job 21:24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. Job 21:33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. Job 30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat. Job 33:19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones; Job 33:21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. Job 40:18 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron. Psalms 6:2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled. Psalms 22:14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. Psalms 22:17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. Psalms 31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. Psalms 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. Psalms 34:20 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. Psalms 35:10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?" Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. Psalms 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" Psalms 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice. Psalms 53:5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. Psalms 102:3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand. Psalms 102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. Psalms 109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. Psalms 109:24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones. Psalms 139:15 My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth. Psalms 141:7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol." Proverbs 3:8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones. Proverbs 12:4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones. Proverbs 14:30 The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones. Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all. Isaiah 38:13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me. Isaiah 58:11 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail. Isaiah 66:14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies. Jeremiah 8:1 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't contain. Jeremiah 23:9 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words. Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. Lamentations 1:13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day. Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. Ezekiel 6:5 I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars. Ezekiel 24:4 gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. Ezekiel 24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the caldron; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst. Ezekiel 24:10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned. Ezekiel 32:27 They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. Meshach; and to Azariah, Ezekiel 37:2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. Ezekiel 37:3 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know. Ezekiel 37:4 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. Ezekiel 37:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. Ezekiel 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. Daniel 6:24 The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den. Amos 2:1 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime; Amos 3:12 Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed." Amos 6:10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD. Micah 3:2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; Micah 3:3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Habakkuk 3:16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us. Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Subtopics Bones: None of Christ's Broken Related Terms Resting-places (27 Occurrences) Burying-place (19 Occurrences) Jabesh-gilead (12 Occurrences) Ja'besh-gil'ead (12 Occurrences) Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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