'Bones' in the Bible

And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence.

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had made the children of Israel swear an oath, saying, God will be sure to visit you; then ye shall carry my bones with you hence.

God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo. He shall consume the nations his enemies, and break their bones, and with his arrows shall smite them in pieces.

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, the day the Philistines had smitten Saul in Gilboa;

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.

And they buried them with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land.

And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar! thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burned upon thee.

And it came to pass after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons saying, When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that behold, they saw the band, and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha; and the man went down, and touched the bones of Elisha, and he revived, and stood upon his feet.

And he broke in pieces the columns, and cut down the Asherahs, and filled their place with the bones of men.

And Josiah turned himself, and saw the sepulchres that were there on the mount; and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah, that the man of God had proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. And they saved his bones, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

And he sacrificed upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were there, and burned men's bones upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.

all the valiant men arose, and took up the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the terebinth of Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

and he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;

So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;

My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;

The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;

His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;

His bones are tubes of bronze, his members are like bars of iron.

Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.

All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; no peace in my bones, because of my sin.

As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Make me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put them to shame, for God hath despised them.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.

And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;

My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.

A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.

That which enlighteneth the eyes rejoiceth the heart; good tidings make the bones fat.

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.

A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.

I kept still until the morning; ... as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a water-spring, whose waters deceive not.

And ye shall see this, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants, and he will have indignation toward his enemies.

At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring forth 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;

And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I could not.

Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome; because of Jehovah, and because of the words of his holiness.

Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

From on high 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.

My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.

and I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

Gather the pieces thereof into it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones:

take the choice of the flock; and also put a pile of wood under it, for the bones; make it boil well, and let the bones of it seethe therein.

Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, boil thoroughly the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

And they lie not with the mighty, that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war; and whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and Jehovah carried me out in the Spirit, and set me down in the midst of a valley; and it was full of bones.

And he said unto me, Son of man, Shall these bones live? And I said, Lord Jehovah, thou knowest.

And he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.

And I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a rustling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

And 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!

And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces ere they came to the bottom of the den.

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.

I heard, and my belly trembled; My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place, That I might rest in the day of distress, When their invader shall come up against the people.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.

for we are members of his body; we are of his flesh, and of his bones.

By faith Joseph when dying called to mind the going forth of the sons of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones.