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# עֹצֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6108

**might** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

might [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6108/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֹ֫צֶם: might, bones [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6108/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] might, bones;— might, cstr. ע׳ יָדִי Dt 8:17, ע׳ יָֽדְךָ Jb 30:21; sf. עָצְמָהֿ Na 3:9 (Ges§ 91 e); + בְּע׳ רוּחוֹ Is 11:15 (Thes al.; for MT בַּעְיָם ר׳). bones (coll.): sf. עָצְמִי ψ 139:15 = my frame.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the might (2); might (1).

## In the verses

[Job 30:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.21/#tree)

תֵּהָפֵ֣ךְ לְאַכְזָ֣ר לִ֑י בְּעֹ֖צֶם יָדְךָ֣ תִשְׂטְמֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* you.change.yourself into.\[one\] cruel to me with the.might your.hand your you are.hostile.towards.me

*JPS 1917:* Thou art turned to be cruel to me; with the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me.

[Nahum 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.9/#tree)

כּ֥וּשׁ עָצְמָ֛ה וּמִצְרַ֖יִם וְאֵ֣ין קֵ֑צֶה פּ֣וּט וְלוּבִ֔ים הָי֖וּ בְּעֶזְרָתֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* Cush might \[was\].its and Egypt and there.\[was\].not an.end Put and.\[the\] Libyans they.were (in) help your

*JPS 1917:* Ethiopia and Egypt were thy strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6108.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6108/): 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).