Strong's Hebrew · H6106

H6106 ʻetsem

עֶצֶם

eh'tsem

body, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.

When ʻetsem is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame

Derivation

from H6105 (עָצַם);

Appears 126 times in Scripture

Leviticus 23:21

“On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.”

Genesis 50:25

“And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.””

Leviticus 23:28

“On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.”

Leviticus 23:29

“If anyone does not humble himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.”

Genesis 17:23

“On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.”

Genesis 2:23

“And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.””

Genesis 29:14

“Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,”

Genesis 7:13

“On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—”

Genesis 17:26

“Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.”

When ʻetsem is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what ʻetsem means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Leviticus 23:21 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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