עֶצֶם ʻetsem

Meaning

a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame

In the King James Version: body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.

Derivation: from H6105 (עָצַם);

Where it is used

• Psalms 31:10 For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
• Psalms 32:3 When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 34:20 He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
• Psalms 35:10 All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
• Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
• Psalms 42:10 Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
• Psalms 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
• Psalms 53:5 There they are, overwhelmed with dread, where there was nothing to fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who besieged you. You put them to shame, for God has despised them.
• Psalms 102:3 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
• Psalms 102:5 Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones.
• Psalms 109:18 The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
• Psalms 141:7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
• Proverbs 3:8 This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
• Proverbs 12:4 A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
• Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
• Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes cheers the heart, and good news nourishes the bones.
• Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
• Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
• Isaiah 38:13 I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
• Isaiah 58:11 The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
• Isaiah 66:14 When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
• Jeremiah 8:1 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.
• Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
• Jeremiah 23:9 As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
• Lamentations 1:13 He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
• Lamentations 3:4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
• Lamentations 4:7 Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
• Lamentations 4:8 But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
• Ezekiel 2:3 “Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
• Ezekiel 6:5 I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
• Ezekiel 24:2 “Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 24:4 Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.
• Ezekiel 24:5 Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’
• Ezekiel 24:10 Pile on the logs and kindle the fire; cook the meat well and mix in the spices; let the bones be burned.
• Ezekiel 32:27 They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
• Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
• Ezekiel 37:3 Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”
• Ezekiel 37:4 And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
• Ezekiel 37:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will come to life.
• Ezekiel 37:7 So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And as I prophesied, there was suddenly a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
• Ezekiel 37:11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
• Ezekiel 39:15 As they pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone will set up a pillar next to it, until the gravediggers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
• Ezekiel 40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
• Amos 2:1 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
• Amos 6:10 And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
• Micah 3:2 You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
• Micah 3:3 You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
• Habakkuk 3:16 I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.