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'Bones' in the Bible

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because [Joseph] had made the {Israelites} solemnly swear an oath, saying, "God will surely attend to you, and you will take up my bones from here with you."

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.

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.

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

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.

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

God, who brings him out from Egypt, [is] like the strength of a wild ox for him. He will devour [the] nations [who are] his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce [them with] his arrows.

The bones of Jacob, which the {Israelites} had brought out from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in a piece of land that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; it became [an] inheritance for the descendants of Joseph.

Then they took their bones and buried [them] under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted [for] seven days.

My brothers, you [are] my bones and you [are] my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?'

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.'"

So David left and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the rulers of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shan, where [the] Philistines hung them {when} [the] Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.

He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed.

And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. They did all that the king had commanded, and afterward God was entreated for the land.

Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "O altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.'"

It happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, "When I die, you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of God [is] buried; you shall lay my bones beside his bones.

And it happened that they [were] burying a man; suddenly they saw the marauding band, so they threw the man in the grave of Elisha. [As he] went [in], the man touched the bones of Elisha, and became alive and got up on his feet!

He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites [with] human bones.

When Josiah turned and saw the tombs which [were] there on the hill, he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned [them] on the altar. [Thus] he defiled them according to the word of Yahweh that the man of God had proclaimed who had proclaimed these things.

So Josiah said, "Let him rest and let no man move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

Then he slaughtered all of the priests of the high places who [were] there, on the altars, and he burned the bones of the humans on them. Then he returned [to] Jerusalem.

every strong man arose and took the dead body of Saul and the dead bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

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

And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face."

dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake.

You clothed me [with] skin and flesh, and you knit me together with bones and sinews.

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

His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.

His vats are full [with] milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.

"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even [with] the strife of his bones continually,

His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, [which] are invisible, are bared.

Its bones [are] tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted {within me}.

For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who [is] like you, who delivers [the] poor from [one] stronger than he and [the] poor and needy from [the one who] robs him?"

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

[As] with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me {all day}, "Where [is] your God?"

There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because 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 vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.

Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body} like water, and into his bones like oil.

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

Just as you do not know how the path of the wind [goes], nor how the bones [of a fetus] form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

I lie down until morning; like lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall {flourish} like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known {to} his servants, and he shall curse his enemies.

"At that time," {declares} Yahweh, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Judah from their graves.

But [if] I say, "I will not mention him and I will no longer speak in his name," then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning, locked up in my bones, and I struggle to contain [it], and I am not able.

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken in my midst. All my bones tremble. I have become like a drunken man, even like a man over whom wine has passed, because of Yahweh, and because of {his holy words}.

Israel [is] a sheep scattered, lions drove [them] away. [The] first who devoured it [was] the king of Assyria, and now [at] the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."

From heaven he sent fire, into my bones he let it descend. He spread out a net for my feet; he turned me back, he gave me devastation, fainting all day.

He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones.

[Now] their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.

and I will place the corpses of the children of Israel {before} their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Gather its pieces to it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder, fill it [with] choice bones;

take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; {boil it vigorously}; indeed, its bones boiled in the midst of it." '"

Pile up the logs; kindle the fire; finish [cooking] the meat, and mix [in] the spices, and let the bones be burned.

And they do not lie with warriors fallen from long ago, who went down [to] Sheol with their weapons of war, and they placed their sword under their heads, and their shields were on their bones, for [the] terror of [the] warriors [was] in [the] land of the living.

The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me by the Spirit of Yahweh, and he {let me rest} in the midst of the valley, and it [was] full of bones.

And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I said, "Lord Yahweh, you know."

And he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and you must say to them, [to] the dry bones, 'Hear the word of Yahweh!

Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: "Look! I [am] bringing into you breath, and you will live!

And I prophesied {just as} I had been commanded, and [there] was a sound at my prophesying, and look! A rattling, and they came together--[the] bones! Bone to its bone!

And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones [are] all of the house of Israel; look! [they are] saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; {we are cut off as far as we are concerned}.'

And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if [anyone] sees [the] bones of person, [then] he will build beside it a sign [to remain] until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.

The king then commanded, and these men were brought {who had accused Daniel}, and they threw them and their children and their wives into {the lion pit}, and they had not reached the floor of the pit {before} the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones.

Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

[Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,

and who eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin from them, and break their bones, and chop [them] like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot."

I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which [is] beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as {you see that I have}."

By faith Joseph, [as he] was dying, mentioned about the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his bones.

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Root Form
Definition
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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