H2436 - חֵיק (chêyq)

H2436 חֵיק (chêyq) khake

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bosom: embrace

Strong's Definition

the bosom (literally or figuratively)

Derivation: or חֵק; and חוֹק; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose;

KJV Usage: bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.

TWOT Reference: 629a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) bosom, hollow, bottom, midst

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G43 G899 G2859

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

: embrace/chest bosom, hollow, bottom, midst

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חוֹק / חֵק / חֵיק chêyq / chêq / chôq BDB Definition: 1) bosom, hollow, bottom, midst Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose Same Word by TWOT Number: 629a Total KJV Occurrences: 38

Bible Occurrences (33)

16:5

4:6 4:7

11:12

13:6 28:54 28:56

4:16

12:3 12:8

1:2 3:20 17:19 22:35

19:27

35:13 79:12 89:50

5:20 6:27 16:33 17:23 21:14

7:9

40:11 65:6 65:7

32:18

2:12

43:13 43:14 43:17

7:5

Genesis 16:5

Then Sarai said to Abram, May the wrong done to me [be] upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt.... May the LORD judge between you and me....

Exodus 4:6

Furthermore, the LORD said to [Moses], Put... your hand inside your cloak. So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out,... his hand [was] leprous, white as snow.

Exodus 4:7

Put your hand back inside your cloak, said [the LORD]. So [Moses] put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out,...... it was restored, like the rest of his skin.

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all these... people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

Deuteronomy 13:6

If your very own brother......, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, Let us go and worship other gods” which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge... his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge... the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Ruth 4:16

And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.