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cheq H2436

חֵיק (cheq) means “bosom: embrace” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

חֵיק Hebrew · H2436 38 tagged occurrences in 34 verses

Pronunciation guide: khake Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2436G

חֵיק · cheq · bosom: embrace

: embrace/chest bosom, hollow, bottom, midst

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TBESH · H2436H

חֵיק · cheq · bosom: garment

: garment bosom, hollow, bottom, midst A sub-meaning of cheq (חֵיק ": embrace" H2436)

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TBESH · H2436I

חֵיק · cheq · bosom: lap

: lap/base bosom, hollow, bottom, midst A sub-meaning of cheq (חֵיק ": embrace" H2436)

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TBESH · H2436J

חֵיק · cheq · bosom: secret

: secret bosom, hollow, bottom, midst A sub-meaning of cheq (חֵיק ": embrace" H2436)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or חֵק; and חוֹק; from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively)

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

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How translators render H2436

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
into your arms 2
the laps 2
a covert 1
and a covert 1
and a gutter 1
at my bosom 1
by his side 1
close to his heart 1
from her arms 1
he embraces 1
his cloak 1
in her bosom 1
in his arms 1
in my heart 1
in the lap 1
in your arms 1
in your bosom 1
inside his cloak 1
inside your cloak 1
into the lap 1
into their laps 1
its gutter 1
on her lap 1
she embraces 1
the arms 1
the bosom 1
the floor 1
the space from the gutter 1
their laps 1
within me 1
you embrace 1
your cloak 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
into thy bosom 4
in his bosom 3
into their bosom 3
in my bosom 2
in the bosom 2
in thy bosom 2
into his bosom 2
it in her bosom 2
and from the bottom 1
and the bottom 1
bosom 1
even the bottom 1
him out of her bosom 1
into mine own bosom 1
into the bosom 1
into the lap 1
into the midst 1
it out of his bosom 1
of her bosom 1
of his bosom 1
of thy bosom 1
out of the bosom 1
the bosom 1
them in thy bosom 1
thy bosom 1
within 1

Verses containing H2436

Page 1 of 1. 34 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  2. Exodus 4:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  3. Exodus 4:7 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    “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.

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  4. Numbers 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  5. Deuteronomy 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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    Source alternate reference: 13.7

  6. Deuteronomy 28:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  7. Deuteronomy 28:56 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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

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  8. Ruth 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  9. 2 Samuel 12:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

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  10. 2 Samuel 12:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.

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  11. 1 Kings 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”

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  12. 1 Kings 3:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

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  13. 1 Kings 17:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

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  14. 1 Kings 22:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. And the blood from his wound ran out onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.

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  15. Job 19:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

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  16. Psalms 35:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

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  17. Psalms 74:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

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  18. Psalms 79:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

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  19. Psalms 89:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

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    Source alternate reference: 89.51

  20. Proverbs 5:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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  21. Proverbs 6:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

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  22. Proverbs 16:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

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  23. Proverbs 17:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A wicked man takes a covert bribe to subvert the course of justice.

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  24. Proverbs 21:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

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  25. Ecclesiastes 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

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  26. Isaiah 40:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

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  27. Isaiah 65:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

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  28. Isaiah 65:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

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  29. Jeremiah 32:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,

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  30. Lamentations 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

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  31. Ezekiel 43:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:

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  32. Ezekiel 43:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.

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  33. Ezekiel 43:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

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  34. Micah 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

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