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Genesis 7:13
“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;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
עֶצֶםʻetsem · eh'tsem
H6106 · Hebrew
H6106 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
- Derivation
- from H6105 (עָצַם);
- KJV renderings
- body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.
- Grammar
- בְּ — preposition
- עֶ֨צֶם — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 126 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:23Genesis 2:23Genesis 17:23Genesis 17:26Genesis 29:14
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עֶצֶם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.