Word

ὀστέον

ostéon · G3747 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

bone

A bone, part of the skeleton of a person or animal

Examples
Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Luke 24:39 “See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you plainly see that I have.”
John 19:36 For these things took place so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
νεκρόςdead, the dead 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

συντρίβωto break into pieces 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

γέμωto be full of 1
ἔχωto have 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

περίconcerning, about, for 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

עֶצֶם ʻetsem · H6106 · bone, bones > body: Hebrew עֶצֶם is the standard lexical equivalent of Greek ὀστέον, both denoting the primary anatomical sense 'bone,' reflecting direct translation equivalence in Septuagint alignment.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Bone8.61: ὀστέον names the physical bone of the body, as the risen Jesus proves to the disciples that He is not a spirit: “Touch Me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you plainly see that I have.” (Luke 24:39)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon contracted ὀστοῦν, genitive ὀστέου, τό (akin to Latinos,ossis; Curtius, § 213, cf., p.…

contracted ὀστοῦν, genitive ὀστέου, τό (akin to Latinos,ossis; Curtius, § 213, cf., p. 41), a bone: Jn 19:36; plural ὀστέα, Lk 24:39; genitive ὀστέων (on these uncontracted forms cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 157); Winers Grammar, § 8, 2 d.; (Buttmann, p. 13 (12))), Mt 23:27; Eph 5:30 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Heb 11:22. (From Homer down; the Sept. very often for עֶצֶם.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Parts of the Body4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0