# H6106 עֶצֶם

עֶצֶם (ʻetsem), Strong’s H6106: a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame KJV: body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very…

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

KJV: body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.

Derived from [עָצַם ʻâtsam](https://besorah.bible/word/H6105) (to bind fast, i.e. close)

Occurs 126 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עֶ֫צֶם 125 n.f. bone, substance, self

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=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…
- [Genesis 7:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=13) — In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with…
- [Genesis 17:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=23) — Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among…
- [Genesis 17:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=26) — In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
- [Genesis 29:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=14) — Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.
- [Genesis 50:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=25) — Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones…
- [Exodus 12:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=17) — You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of…
- [Exodus 12:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=41) — At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of the LORD’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
- [Exodus 12:46](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=46) — It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
- [Exodus 12:51](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=51) — That same day, the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.