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STRONGS NUMBER H6106
Transliteration: etsem
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'tsem)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: bone, substance, self
Meaning: a bone, the body, the substance, selfsame
Word Summary
etsem: bone, substance, self
Original Word: עֶצֶםTransliteration: etsem
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'tsem)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: bone, substance, self
Meaning: a bone, the body, the substance, selfsame
Strong's Concordance
body, bone, life, selfsame, strength, very From atsam; a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) Selfsame -- body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
see HEBREW atsam
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6106. etsem
I. עֶ֫צֶם125 noun femininePsalm 35:10 (with pronoun masculine Ezekiel 37:5-6, etc., compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896). 73) bone, substance, self; — absolute ׳י Genesis 2:23 +; עָ֑צֶם; Proverbs 15:30; 16:24; construct עֶצֶם Exodus 24:10 +; suffix עַצְמִי Job 19:20 +, etc.; plural עֲצָמוֺת 2 Kings 23:16 +; construct עַצְמוֺת Joshua 24:22 +; suffix עַצְמֹתַי Job 4:14 +, etc.; also עֲצָמִים Ezekiel 24:4 +, suffix עֲצָמַי Genesis 2:23 +, etc.; —
1 bone:
a. of living person Micah 3:2-3,(hyperbole), Job 10:11; 19:20; Lamentations 4:8; Psalm 102:6; Ecclesiastes 11:5 +; figurative of close relationship מֵעֲצָמַי עֶצָם Genesis 2:23, compare 29:14 (both J), Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1 = 1 Chronicles 11:1; 2 Samuel 19:13; 19:14 (all + בָּשָׂר).
b. ׳ע + בָּשָׂר = body, Job 2:5, plural = bodily frame Jeremiah 20:9 (simile), limbs, members, לַעֲצָמֶיהָ Judges 9:29 i.e. limb by limb (GFM); as seat of vigour Job 20:11, etc.
c. (poetry) as seat of disease and pain Job 30:17, 30 and (especially of personified Israel) Psalm 22:15; 31:11; 102:4; Lamentations 1:13; Habakkuk 3:16 +.
d. plural as representing entire person = one's whole being, (especially of personified Israel) Psalm 6:3 ("" נֶפֶשׁ 6:4), 35:10 ("" נֶפֶשׁ 35:9), Isaiah 66:14; of individual (including physical and moral) Proverbs 3:8; 14:30; 15:30; 16:24.
e. singular = external body Lamentations 4:7 Ew Th and others, but dubious; Bi Bu bones (= branches) of coral (מְּנִינִים); Löhr עוֺרָם their skin.
f. especially of dead Numbers 19:16, 18 (P), Ezekiel 37:1 +; often (plural) = remains Amos 6:10; Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19 (twice in verse); Joshua 24:32 (all E) +.
2 bone of animal Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12 (both P); Ezekiel 24:4-5, (symbolic); of (living) hippopotamus Job 40:18.
3 singular substance, self (compare גֶּרֶם
3): ׳כְּע הַשָּׁמַיִם Exodus 24:10 (JE), like the substance of the sky = the sky itself; ׳בְּע תֻּמּוֺ Job 21:23 i.e. full prosperity; especially הַזֶּה הַיּוֺם ׳אֶתעֿ Ezekiel 24:2 this selfsame day, ׳בְּע ׳וגו 24:2; 40:1; Genesis 7:13; 17:23, 26; Exodus 12:17, 41, 51; Leviticus 23:21, 28, 29, 30; Deuteronomy 32:48; Joshua 5:11 (all P), ׳עַדעֿ ׳וגו Ezekiel 2:3; Leviticus 23:14 (P), Joshua 10:27 (R). — Ezekiel 24:5a read הָעֵצִים (Bö Ew and others); 24:10 strike out הָעֲצָמוֺת (Co Toy); Job 7:15 read מֵעַצְּבוֺתָ֑י (Reiske Me Bu Du and others); Psalm 53:6 read perhaps מֵעֲצַת (compare "" 14:6 Bae; see Hup Che and others); 69:5 read מֵעַצְמוֺתַי (for מַצְמִיתַי ᵑ0), ᵑ6 Ol Che Bae and others