120 occurrences in 13 translations

'Bones' in the Bible

And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

Verse ConceptsSleep, PhysicalAnestheticSealing ThingsAdam and eve

Lo, seven other cows came up after them, very ugly and gaunt [just skin and bones]; such emaciated animals as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsUnique CreaturesBad Items

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.

Verse ConceptsBonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The WorldExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

You shall let none of the meat remain until the morning, and anything that remains left over until morning, you shall burn completely in the fire.

Verse ConceptsBurning SacrificesRemaining Offeringscommunion

It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambBonesGospel, Confirmation OfPassoverBodies Of AnimalsNo Bones BrokenOutside The HouseMessianic Prophecies

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.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsGod VisitingBonesPeople Bound By Oaths

Then he must wash its inner parts and its lower leg bones with water, and the priest will turn into smoke the whole [animal] on the altar [as] a burnt offering [by] fire, [as] an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsAromasLegsPleasing GodSmellsClean AnimalsRefreshing God

Then he must wash the inner parts and the lower leg bones with water and the priest shall present the whole [animal] and will turn [it] into smoke on the altar; it [is] a burnt offering [by] fire [as] an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsClean AnimalsRefreshing God

But the bull's skin and its meat, in addition to its head, {its lower leg bones}, its inner parts, and its offal--

Verse ConceptsDefecation

but he washed the inner parts and the lower leg bones with water, and Moses turned into smoke all of the ram on the altar; it [was] a burnt offering as an appeasing fragrance, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, [just] as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsAromasLegsSmellsClean AnimalsRefreshing God

and he washed the inner parts and the lower leg bones, then he turned [them] into smoke upon the burnt offering on the altar.

Verse ConceptsClean Animals

they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLord's SupperOrdinancesRemaining OfferingsNo Bones Broken

Whoever is out in an open field and touches the body of someone who was killed by a sword, or a dead body, or someone's bones, or a grave, he is to be considered unclean for seven days.

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesGrave, TheTombsCemeterySeven DaysTouching Unclean ThingsRules About CorpsesSeven Days For Legal Purposesnatural Death

A clean person is to take some hyssop, dip it in water, and then sprinkle it on the tent, on every vessel, and on whoever was there (that is, on whoever touched the bones, the killed person, or the dead body, including whoever dug the grave).

Verse ConceptsSprinkling Water

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.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicorns

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.

Verse ConceptsExhumationsBonesLarge Denominations

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.

Verse ConceptsKnifesPeople Cut In PiecesTwelve Thingsmistresscutting

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Verse ConceptsPeople Who DelayedSame Bone And Flesh

To Amasa you shall say: '[Are] you not my bones and my flesh? {May God punish me} if you [are] not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.'"

Verse ConceptsTreasonExchanging Of LeadersSame Bone And Flesh

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:

Verse ConceptsSecrecyBonesPeople Hung To Death

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.

Verse ConceptsBones

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.

Verse ConceptsAnother's Burial PlaceGod Answered Prayer

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.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsSanctity Of LifeBirths ForetoldDuplicating WordsBonesBurning Idolatrous ThingsMan Of God

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:

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheBonesAnother's Burial PlaceBurying places

And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

Verse ConceptsSkullsCorpses Of Other Peoplejezebel

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.

Verse ConceptsBodyMiracles, Nature OfMiracles Of ElishaBonesAnother's Burial Placerevival

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksBones

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.

Verse ConceptsTombsWord Of GodBonesBurning Idolatrous Things

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.

Verse ConceptsUnnamed Prophets Of The Lord

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.

Verse ConceptsCremationHigh PlacesKilling PriestsBones

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.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfWeeksSeven Daysgirlfriends

Then all Israel gathered to David in Hebron, saying, "Look--we are your flesh and bones.

Verse ConceptsBonesBodySame Bone And Flesh

And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsBonesBurning People

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofdiseasesFalse AccusationsDamage To The BodyTouching To HarmWoundsCursing God

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Verse ConceptsAnatomyHuman SkinJoining Flesh And Bonesmuscles

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

Verse ConceptsSkinTeethDamage To The BodyEscaping Evilmuscles

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

Verse ConceptsYouthFruits Of SinFreshness Of YouthEarly DeathLife Cut Short

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Verse ConceptsFat PeopleMoist Thingsbreasts

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Verse ConceptsWasteThin Bodies

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.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionEnjoyment, Lack OfHeart, HumanPouringMeltingWaxBowelsDislocatingMessianic Propheciesbreasts

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForAgony, Of BodyGriefSighingI Am SadCauses of failure ingrieving

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

Verse ConceptsDecayWasteConviction Of SinConfession of sin

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?

Verse ConceptsThe NeedyBad LeadershipBonesGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForPoverty, SpiritualRescueGod And The PoorCaring For OthersAnatomyWho Is Like God?

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Verse ConceptsBodyHealthSin Brings SicknessPeace And Strength

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.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenGuilty FearBonesTerror Of GodBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

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.

Verse ConceptsBodyGarments Of SinClothed With Bad ThingsDamage To The BodyThings Like WaterLike WaterSwearingcurses

My bones were not hidden from Youwhen I was made in secret,when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

Verse ConceptsembroideryGod's Providential ControlInside And OutActing In SecretAspects Of People Made Known

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsPloughingThe Frailty Of ManBones

"At that time Jacob's splendor will be greatly diminished, and he will become skin and bones.

Verse ConceptsFatnessDecayThin BodiesLosing Honour

The light of the full moon will be like the sun's glare and the sun's glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people's fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

Verse ConceptsAstronomyLight, NaturalMoonSevenSevenfoldGod HealsMillennial Kingdom, Christ Restores IsraelSunSunshineThe Moonscars

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.

Verse ConceptsDawnBones BrokenGod Like A LionLike CreaturesPeople Ended

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.

Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationGrassPromised JoyGod's HandProvision For The Bodymotheringrejuvenation

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:

Verse ConceptsBones

They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and the whole heavenly host, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the surface of the soil.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligiondirtAstrologyMoonStarsDefecationBonesNo BurialsIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonGod Judging Star WorshippersThe Moon

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.

Verse ConceptsForgetting Godevangelism, motivation forRenewed HeartInward FireFervourZealousness, Examples OfShutting SecurelyFire Of God's WordForgetting PeopleProphecy MuzzledTired In ActivityUnbearable Thingsadvertising

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.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessAlcoholdefeatWineIndividuals TremblingBroken Heartsheartbroken

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

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theIn Danger From Lions

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.

Verse ConceptsNetsUnceasingContinual HardshipCausing People To TurnDamage To The BodyFire From HeavenGod Trapping

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.

Verse ConceptsSkinSticksHuman SkinSootPeople WitheredNot Recognising PeopleBlack Peoplelimitations

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.

Verse ConceptsBonesFate Of IdolatersIn Front

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

Verse ConceptsBonesThighs Of Animalscookingpot

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.

Verse ConceptsHot ThingsFirewoodSheep And Goats

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

Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodBrothHerbs And SpicesBonesBurning PeopleFirewood

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.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHell, Punishment OfWeaponsFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The Dead

You haven't strengthened the weak, treated the sick, set broken bones, regathered the scattered, or looked for the lost. Instead, you've dominated them with brutal force and ruthlessness.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdiseasesInjuryOppression, Nature OfUnkindnessWeakness, PhysicalBones BrokenWeak AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleReinstating PeopleOppressorsJoining Flesh And BonesLording ItLost PeopleNo HealingWeakness

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,

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodThe Spirit Of The LordGod's HandGod's Hands On PeopleLed By The Spirit

He led me here and there throughout the valley, and I was amazed to see that the surface of the entire valley was covered with myriads of very dry bones!

Verse ConceptsProphetic Visions

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

Verse ConceptsAre The Dead Raised?

Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfSpiritual DeafnessProphesy!ProphecyProphecies concerning

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

Verse ConceptsThe Dead Are Raisedbreathingbreath

I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and I will put breath in you so that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Verse ConceptsSkinSinewsHuman SkinGod Giving BreathJoining Flesh And BonesThe Dead Are Raisedbreathingbreathprocessmuscles

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.

Verse ConceptsProphesyingSoundJoining Flesh And BonesValley Of Dry Bones

As I continued to watch, I saw tendons growing on the bones, and muscles growing and covering them, and then skin covered the flesh from above. But the bodies weren't breathing.

Verse ConceptsSinewsHuman SkinHaving No BreathValley Of Dry Bonesbreathingmuscles

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
δουλόω 
Douloo 
Usage: 8

δέσμιος 
Desmios 
prisoner , be in bonds , in bonds
Usage: 16

אמה 
'amah 
Usage: 56

אסּר אסר 
'ecar 
Usage: 11

גּרם 
Garam 
Usage: 3

גּרם 
Gerem 
Usage: 5

גּרם 
Gerem (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

כּבשׁ 
Kabash 
Usage: 14

לחי 
L@chiy 
Usage: 21

מגבּעה 
Migba`ah 
Usage: 4

מסרה מוסרה מוסר 
Mowcer 
Usage: 11

מוּסר 
Muwcar 
Usage: 50

מסרת 
Macoreth 
Usage: 1

עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800

עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

עבדוּת 
`abduwth 
Usage: 3

עצם 
`atsam 
Usage: 20

עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

פּאר 
P@'er 
Usage: 7

קנה 
Qaneh 
Usage: 62

שׁפחה 
Shiphchah 
Usage: 63

ἅλυσις 
Halusis 
Usage: 11

δεσμόν δεσμός 
Desmon 
Usage: 19

δέω 
Deo 
bind , tie , knit , be in bonds , wind
Usage: 32

δουλεία 
Douleia 
Usage: 5

δουλεύω 
Douleuo 
serve , be in bondage , do service
Usage: 20

δοῦλος 
Doulos 
Usage: 65

καταδουλόω 
Katadouloo 
Usage: 2

ὀστέον ὀστοῦν 
Osteon 
Usage: 3

παιδίσκη 
Paidiske 
Usage: 12

σύνδεσμος 
sundesmos 
Usage: 4

σφυρόν 
Sphuron 
Usage: 1

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