'Bosom' in the Bible

The Lord furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?

“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lambWhich he bought and nourished;And it grew up together with him and his children.It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,And was like a daughter to him.

So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

He said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.

“Have I covered my transgressions like Adam,By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;I humbled my soul with fasting,And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?From within Your bosom, destroy them!

And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosomThe reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,

With which the reaper does not fill his hand,Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteressAnd embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Can a man take fire in his bosomAnd his clothes not be burned?

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,But in the hearts of fools it is made known.

A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosomTo pervert the ways of justice.

A gift in secret subdues anger,And a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

Do not be eager in your heart to be angry,For anger resides in the bosom of fools.

Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,In His arm He will gather the lambsAnd carry them in His bosom;He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

Thus says the Lord God,“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nationsAnd set up My standard to the peoples;And they will bring your sons in their bosom,And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

“Behold, it is written before Me,I will not keep silent, but I will repay;I will even repay into their bosom,

Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says the Lord.“Because they have burned incense on the mountainsAnd scorned Me on the hills,Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts,That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”

who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The Lord of hosts is His name;

They say to their mothers,“Where is grain and wine?”As they faint like a wounded manIn the streets of the city,As their life is poured outOn their mothers’ bosom.

and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

Do not trust in a neighbor;Do not have confidence in a friend.From her who lies in your bosomGuard your lips.

Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.