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# חֵצֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2683

**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/1495/2683/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫צֶן: n.m. bosom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2683/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bosom of a garment (Arabic حِضْنٌ, Ethiopic ሕፅን: also Syriac ܚܰܢܳܐ bosom (= ܚܥܢܐ), v. HoffmZMG 1878, 753 LagM ii, 361 ff.; BN 46 f.; on this word and foll. v. BaNB 120; ZMG 1889, 183)—שֶׁלֹּא מִלֵּא כַפּוֹ קוֹצֵר וְחִצְנוֹ מְעַמֵּר ψ 129:7 (grass) with which a reaper filleth not his hand, nor a binder his bosom.

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 (5 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

[Psalms 129:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.7/#tree)

שֶׁלֹּ֤א מִלֵּ֖א כַפּ֥וֹ קוֹצֵ֗ר וְחִצְנ֥וֹ מְעַמֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* which not he.has.filled palm his a.reaper and bosom his \[one.who\].binds.sheaves

*JPS 1917:* Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2683.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2683/): 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).