Bones
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Genesis 50:25 Exodus 13:19 1 Samuel 31:13 Proverbs 12:4 Proverbs 14:30 Habakkuk 3:16 Job 4:14 Jeremiah 23:9 Psalm 102:3 Lamentations 1:13 Jeremiah 20:9 Proverbs 17:22 Job 30:17 Psalm 6:2 Psalm 22:14 Psalm 31:10 Psalm 38:3 Psalm 51:8 Lamentations 3:4 Genesis 2:23 2 Samuel 5:1
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Bones is used widely in OT as a synonym for the body, living or dead, or the person ( Psalms 42:10; Psalms 51:8 ). As the solid framework of the body, the bones are the seat of health and strength, so that breaking, rottenness, dryness of the bones are frequent figures for sickness or moral disorder ( Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 17:22 , Psalms 6:2; Psalms 22:14 ). ‘Bone of my bone’ answers to the English phrase ‘of the same blood’; but the concluding words of Ephesians 5:30 should be omitted. In Luke 24:39 the unique expression seems to emphasize the nature of the Resurrection body, as different from the ordinary ‘flesh and blood.’ See Gibson, Thirty-Nine Articles , p. 188.
C. W. Emmet.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [3]
The framework of the body; so the breaking of them expresses overwhelming sorrow, which prostrates body and mind ( Isaiah 38:13). As the surgeon must sometimes break a bone to save a patient lameness for life, so God breaks that He may heal Self will and self righteousness must be broken, that we may run the way of God's commandments. When one has a "broken and contrite heart," "the bones which God has broken rejoice" ( Psalms 51:8; Psalms 51:17). Not a bone of Jesus was broken, as antitype of the paschal lamb ( Exodus 12:46; John 19:33; John 19:36).
