'Bones' in the Bible

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of Man."

Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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 street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.

He cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, "Altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men's bones on you.'"

It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

It happened, as they were burying a man, that behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the tomb of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

He said, "Let him be! Let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men's bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

all the valiant men arose, 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.

He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

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

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.

You will see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

At that time, says Yahweh, 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;

If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].

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 has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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

gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst.

Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.

Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they 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, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

who also 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 caldron.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.