חֹב
chôb · H2243 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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Small bag formed by a folded piece of cloth; part a garment; used to carry small objects, which will not be visible from the outside and therefore associated with secrecy (fold (of garment))
ExamplesJob 31:33 “Have I covered my wrongdoings like a man, By hiding my guilt in my shirt pocket,
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- חֵיק chêyq · H2436 · bosom, chest, lap
- חֵיק is the more common Hebrew term for 'bosom' or 'lap,' used extensively throughout the OT (e.g., Proverbs 6:27, Ruth 4:16, 2 Samuel 12:3) with the same semantic range as חֹב, both referring to the fold of a garment at the chest or the embrace area.
In the other Testament 1 word
- κόλπος kólpos · G2859 · bosom, lap, fold
- κόλπος is the standard Greek term for 'bosom' or 'lap,' used for the fold of a garment at the chest (e.g., Luke 16:22-23, John 13:23), and serves as the direct translation equivalent for Hebrew חֹב in contexts referring to the bosom or chest area.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Clothing001003001001002
- חֹב denotes the bosom or a garment's fold, the pocket-like recess of clothing Job speaks of concealing wrongdoing in.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2243. chob [חֹב] noun [masculine] bosom (Aramaic) עֲוֺנִ֑י בְּחֻבִּי לִטְמוֺן Job 31:33…
[חֹב] noun [masculine] bosom (Aramaic) עֲוֺנִ֑י בְּחֻבִּי לִטְמוֺן Job 31:33 (compare חֵיק).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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