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# חֹב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2243

**bosom** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bosom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2243/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹב²: bosom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2243/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bosom (Aramaic) לִטְמוֹן בְּחֻבִּי עֲוֹנִ֑י Jb 31:33 (cf. חֵיק).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bosom (1).

## In the verses

[Job 31:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.33/#tree)

אִם־כִּסִּ֣יתִי כְאָדָ֣ם פְּשָׁעָ֑י לִטְמ֖וֹן בְּחֻבִּ֣י עֲוֺֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* if I.have.concealed like humankind transgressions my by hiding in bosom my iniquity my

*JPS 1917:* If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2243.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2243/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).