Word

חֵיק

chêyq · H2436 · Hebrew · 38 occurrences

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Meanings

bosom, chest, lap

Front of the body of a human being, which, when a person is sitting down, forms a kind of platform that can be used for activities like throwing the lot, and that can even function as a sitting place for someone else, like a pet animal, a child or a beloved one; symbolizes affection and intimacy, and sometimes represents the entire person

Examples
Genesis 16:5 So Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Ruth 4:16 Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her lap, and became his nurse.
2 Samuel 12:3 “But the poor man had nothing at all except one little ewe lamb Which he bought and nurtured; And it grew up together with him and his children. It would eat scraps from him and drink from his cup and lie in his lap, And was like a daughter to him.
to pay back

Literally: to measure out on (someone's) lap; hence: causative process by which deities cause humans to receive the appropriate return for their evil actions, which are mostly evil

Examples
Isaiah 65:7 Both your own wrongdoings and the wrongdoings of your fathers together,” says the LORD. “Because they have burned incense on the mountains And scorned Me on the hills, Therefore I will measure their former work into their laps.”
to pay back

Literally: to send back to (someone's) bosom; hence: causative process by which deities cause humans to receive the appropriate return for their evil actions, which are mostly evil

Examples
Psalm 79:12 And return to our neighbors seven times as much into their lap Their taunts with which they have taunted You, Lord.
to pay back

Literally: to pay back to (someone's) bosom; hence: causative process by which deities cause humans to receive the appropriate return for their evil actions, which are mostly evil

Examples
Isaiah 65:6 “Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will even repay into their laps,
Jeremiah 32:18 who shows mercy to thousands, but repays the wrongdoing of fathers into the laps of their children after them, great and mighty God. The LORD of armies is His name;
Literally: bosom; hence: the fold one one's robe which covers the chest (inside (one's) robe)

Examples
Exodus 4:6 The LORD furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand inside the fold of your robe.” So he put his hand inside the fold, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
Exodus 4:7 Then He said, “Put your hand inside the fold of your robe again.” So he put his hand into the fold again, and when he took it out of the fold, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
Psalm 74:11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Extend it from Your chest and destroy them!
body, base, bottom

Literally: chest, lap: main body of an object

Examples
1 Kings 22:35 The battle raged on that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and he died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot.
Ezekiel 43:14 “And from the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the width one cubit.
Ezekiel 43:17 “And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around it shall be half a cubit, and its base shall be a cubit all around; and its steps shall face east.”
secret

Literally: (in/from one's) bosom; hence: a state in which an event is unknown to others

Examples
Proverbs 17:23 A wicked person accepts a bribe from an inside pocket To pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret subdues anger, And a bribe in an inside pocket, strong wrath.
bosom > heart

Literally: bosom; hence: the inner person, which includes the center of human thinking, and the seat of emotions

Examples
Psalm 89:50 Remember, Lord, the taunt against Your servants; How I carry in my heart the taunts of all the many peoples,
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry, For anger resides in the heart of fools.

How it’s used In 5 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

33 occurrences in 11 groups

ךָyour 9
הוּhis 7
יmy 4
הּher 4
הֶםtheir 3
Other words · 6 groups that occur once or twice (6) 6

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חָבַקto hold 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אַמָּהcubit 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

30 occurrences in 4 groups

בin/on/with 33
אֵלto, toward 14
מִןfrom 6
עַלon, upon, over, against 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 2
אִישׁman, person, each 1
קֶרֶבmidst, among, inner parts 1
שָׁכַבto lie 1

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

κόλπος kólpos · G2859 · bosom, lap, fold: Greek κόλπος is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew חֵיק across their shared core senses of 'bosom' (anatomical) and 'lap' (as receptacle), attested in LXX renderings where both denote the fold of a garment at the chest or the embrace/intimate space between arms.

Semantic domains 6 entries

People001001003: The noun names the intimate bodily bosom of a person, as Sarai speaks of the wrong done to her over the slave woman she had put into Abram's "arms" (Genesis 16:5).
Chastise002003002005: The word occurs in the idiom of recompense being poured or measured "into the bosom," describing the requital of wrongdoing returned upon the offender.
Clothing001003001001002: The word names the fold of a garment worn against the body, as Moses puts his hand "inside the fold of his robe" and it becomes leprous (Exodus 4:6-7).
Products001003001: The fold of a garment could also be used to carry or measure out goods, an object held and transported in the bosom of one's clothing.
Non-Know002004002008: The same fold of clothing could conceal something from view, as in the proverb of a bribe secretly given "in the bosom" to pacify anger unseen (Proverbs 21:14).
Self003001016: The word can denote one's own innermost, intimate self, as "the wife of your bosom" describes the closest, most intimate relation a person has (Deuteronomy 13:6).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2436. cheq [חוק] noun [masculine] bosom, Psa 74:11 Kt חוקך (but read Qr חֵיקְךָ, see…

H2436. cheq
[חוק] noun [masculine] bosom, Psa 74:11 Kt חוקך (but read Qr חֵיקְךָ, see following).
חֵק חֵיק, noun [masculine] bosom (Late Hebrew id.) — absolute חֵיק Eze 43:17; Pro 16:33 + Eze 43:13 (Co חיקו, compare ZKW1883, pp. 67ff.; חֵיקֹה DrSm xxxi), חֵק Pro 21:14; construct חֵיק 1Ki 22:35 1Ki 22:3t. + Eze 43:14 (Co חיקו) חֵק Pro 5:20 (omitted by accident in Baer, compare Stron the passage) Pro 17:23 suffix חֵיקִי 1Ki 3:20; Psa 89:51; חֵקִי Job 19:27 etc.; elsewhere always plene with suffix; חוקף Kt Psa 74:11 (Qr חֵיקְךָ); — bosom, specifically
1 of fold of garment, at breast Exo 4:6 (twice in verse); Exo 4:7 (3 t. in verse) (all J), Pro 6:27; Pro 16:33, metaphor of ׳י Psa 74:11; בח ׳שֹׁחַד Pro 21:14 is a hidden reward (concealed in bosom; || בַּסֵּתֶר מַתָּן); טֵחֵק שֹׁחַד Pro 17:23 is a gift secretly given; figurative, requite into bosom Isa 65:6-7, Psa 35:13; Psa 79:12; Jer 32:18.
2 carry (נָשָׂא) in bosom, Moses the people Num 11:12 (JE); Naomi, Ruth's child Rth 4:16, compare 1Ki 3:20 (twice in verse); 1Ki 17:19; ewe lamb 2Sa 12:3; Isa 40:11 (metaphor); Lam 2:12 of infants dying in their mothers' arms; figurative of carrying insults in one's bosom Psa 89:51 (read probably כְּלִמַּת for כֹּל, see Bi Che).
3 bosom as part of body:
a. external, lie in bosom, of wife שׁככת Mic 7:5, compare 2Sa 12:8; concubine Gen 16:5 (J) compare 1Ki 1:2; חיק(ךׅ אֵשֶׁת Deu 13:7; Deu 28:54, compare also Pro 5:20 נָכְּרִיָה חֵק תְּחַבֵּק; חֵיקָהּ אֹישׁ Deu 28:56.
b. internal, anger resteth ׳בה כסילים Ecc 7:9; בְּחֵקִי כִלְֹיתַי כָּלוּ Job 19:27 my reins are consumed within me; Job 23:12 (read בְּחֵקִי for מֵחֻקִּי, so ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Ol Me Stu Di) in my breast have I hidden the words of his mouth (compare בְּלִבִּי Psa 119:11); figurative of interior of chariot 1Ki 22:35 ׳ח הרכב; of hollow bottom of altar Eze 43:13-14, Eze 43:17 (Sm Rinne; Co Grundeinfassung).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 6 entries

People18 occurrences Products4 occurrences Clothing4 occurrences Chastise4 occurrences Non-Know2 occurrences Self3 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