Gematria of Bone
4 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “bone” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 194 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 4
- Occurrences
- 194
- Distinct values
- 3
The 4 Hebrew words rendered “bone”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
First appearance ·Genesis 2:23בראשית ב:כגעֶצֶם
a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a steelyard)
First appearance ·Genesis 41:5בראשית מא:הבְּקָנֶה
a bone (as the skeleton of the body); hence, self, i.e. (figuratively) very
First appearance ·Genesis 49:14בראשית מט:ידגָּרֶם
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of bone?
The Tanakh renders “bone” with 4 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: עצם = 200, קנה = 155 and גרם = 243.
How do you say bone in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 4 Hebrew words for “bone”; the most frequent are עצם (ʻetsem), 126 times; קנה (qâneh), 62 times; גרם (gerem), 6 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.