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Strong's H6106 עֶצֶם (etsem)

Etsem means “body” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H6106
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 108
Books 24

Strong's H6106 Quick Answer

Strong's H6106 עֶצֶם (`etsem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `etsem (eh'tsem) n-f. 1. a bone (as strong) 2. by extension, the body It has 108 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include bone, selfsame, body, life, and strong. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
`etsem (eh'tsem) n-f. 1. a bone (as strong) 2. by extension, the body
Usage
108 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
bone, selfsame, body, life, and strong

Meaning and Definition

`etsem (eh'tsem) n-f. 1. a bone (as strong) 2. by extension, the body 3. (figuratively) the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame [from H6105] KJV: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very. Root(s): H6105

Original Word
עֶצֶם
Transliteration
`etsem
Derivation
Root: עצם First root strongs: 6105
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H6106. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

bone

Usage: : bone/limb 1) bone, essence, substance 1a) bone 1a1) body, limbs, members, external body 1b) bone (of animal) 1c) substance, self

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How Strong's H6106 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `etsem, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

bone Genesis 2:23 14× selfsame Exodus 12:17 body Exodus 24:10 life Job 7:15 strong Job 33:19 bones Genesis 2:23

How Strong's H6106 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 108 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H6106 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H6106 in the Old Testament

108 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 2:23 KJV

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.

Genesis 7:13 KJV

In 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 17:23 KJV

And 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.

Usage Excerpts

First 108 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6106.

Genesis 2:23 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Genesis 7:13 Old Testament, KJV
In 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 17:23 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 17:26 Old Testament, KJV
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
Genesis 29:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis 50:25 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 12:17 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
Exodus 12:41 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:46 Old Testament, KJV
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Exodus 12:51 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Exodus 13:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Exodus 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Leviticus 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Leviticus 23:28 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Leviticus 23:29 Old Testament, KJV
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 23:30 Old Testament, KJV
And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
Numbers 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
Numbers 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers 19:18 Old Testament, KJV
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Numbers 24:8 Old Testament, KJV
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
Deuteronomy 32:48 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
Joshua 5:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
Joshua 10:27 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
Joshua 24:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Judges 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
Judges 19:29 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel 19:12 Old Testament, KJV
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
2 Samuel 21:12 Old Testament, KJV
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
2 Samuel 21:13 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
2 Samuel 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
1 Kings 13:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
1 Kings 13:31 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
2 Kings 13:21 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
2 Kings 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2 Kings 23:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
2 Kings 23:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 10:12 Old Testament, KJV
They arose, all the valiant men, 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.
1 Chronicles 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Chronicles 34:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Job 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 4:14 Old Testament, KJV
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 7:15 Old Testament, KJV
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job 19:20 Old Testament, KJV
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 20:11 Old Testament, KJV
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 21:23 Old Testament, KJV
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:24 Old Testament, KJV
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Job 30:17 Old Testament, KJV
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:30 Old Testament, KJV
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 33:19 Old Testament, KJV
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job 33:21 Old Testament, KJV
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job 40:18 Old Testament, KJV
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Psalms 6:2 Old Testament, KJV
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 22:14 Old Testament, KJV
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms 22:17 Old Testament, KJV
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Psalms 31:10 Old Testament, KJV
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 32:3 Old Testament, KJV
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 34:20 Old Testament, KJV
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psalms 35:10 Old Testament, KJV
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Psalms 38:3 Old Testament, KJV
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 42:10 Old Testament, KJV
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 51:8 Old Testament, KJV
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psalms 53:5 Old Testament, KJV
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Psalms 102:3 Old Testament, KJV
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms 102:5 Old Testament, KJV
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Psalms 109:18 Old Testament, KJV
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms 141:7 Old Testament, KJV
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Proverbs 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4 Old Testament, KJV
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 14:30 Old Testament, KJV
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 15:30 Old Testament, KJV
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
Proverbs 16:24 Old Testament, KJV
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 Old Testament, KJV
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Isaiah 38:13 Old Testament, KJV
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Isaiah 58:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 66:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Jeremiah 8:1 Old Testament, KJV
At that time, saith the LORD, 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 Old Testament, KJV
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Jeremiah 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Lamentations 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Lamentations 4:8 Old Testament, KJV
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Ezekiel 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel 6:5 Old Testament, KJV
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Ezekiel 24:2 Old Testament, KJV
Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
Ezekiel 24:4 Old Testament, KJV
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Ezekiel 24:5 Old Testament, KJV
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Ezekiel 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
Ezekiel 32:27 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 37:1 Old Testament, KJV
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
Ezekiel 37:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
Ezekiel 37:4 Old Testament, KJV
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
Ezekiel 37:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
Ezekiel 37:7 Old Testament, KJV
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
Ezekiel 37:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Ezekiel 39:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.
Ezekiel 40:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
Amos 2:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Amos 6:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Habakkuk 3:16 Old Testament, KJV
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6106, grouped by book.

Genesis 6 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 5 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 5 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 13 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 15 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 5 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 4 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 15 usages, Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H6106 FAQ

What does etsem (עֶצֶם) mean?

Etsem (Strong's H6106) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "body". `etsem (eh'tsem) n-f. 1. a bone (as strong) 2. by extension, the body

How many times is etsem (עֶצֶם) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 108 linked usages for Strong's H6106 across 24 books.

Where can I study etsem (עֶצֶם) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6106 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate etsem (עֶצֶם)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bone, selfsame, body, life, strong, and bones. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.