Marrow

Holman Bible Dictionary

Psalm 63:5Isaiah 25:6Job 21:24Proverbs 3:8Hebrews 4:12

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

The rich and delicious blessings of the gospel are figuratively set forth as marrow; hence David speaks of them as such to his soul. (Psalms 63:5) And the prophet Isaiah represents the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ as "a feast of fat things, and full of marrow." (Isaiah 25:6)

King James Dictionary

MAR'ROW, n.

1. A soft oleaginous substance contained in the cavities of animal bones. 2. The essence the best part. 3. In the Scottish dialect, a companion fellow associate match.

MAR'ROW, To fill with marrow or with fat to glut.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Μυελός (Strong'S #3452 — Noun Masculine — muelos — moo-el-os' )

"marrow," occurs in Hebrews 4:12 , where, by a natural metaphor, the phraseology changes from the material to the spiritual.

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The essence; the best part.

(2):

(n.) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.

(3):

(v. t.) To fill with, or as with, marrow of fat; to glut.

(4):

(n.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mar´ō ( מח , mōaḥ , חלב , ḥēlebh , שׁקּוּי , shiḳḳūy , מחה , māḥāh , "to make fat," "to grease"; μυελός , muelós ): Marrow is the nourisher and strengthener of the bones; it is said to moisten the bones: "The marrow ( mōaḥ ) of his bones is moistened" ( Job 21:24 ). The fear of Yahweh "will be health to thy navel, and marrow ( shiḳḳūy , margin "refreshing, Hebrew moistening") to thy bones" (Proverbs 3:8 ). Thus, the expression is used figuratively of the things which alone can satisfy the soul: "My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow ( ḥēlebh , "fat") and fatness" (Psalm 63:5 ); "In this mountain will Yahweh of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow (ממחים , memuḥāyim , particle, plural, Pual of māḥāh ), of wines on the lees well refined" (Isaiah 25:6 ). In the Epistle to the Hebrews the writer speaks of the word of God, which is "living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow" (Hebrews 4:12 ).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(מֹחִ , mo'ach, fatness, Job 21:24; kindred is the verb מָחָה, machah', Isaiah 25:6, "fatness unmarrowed," i.e. drawn out from the marrow- bones, and therefore the most delicate; μυελός, Hebrews 4:12), the soft, oleaginous substance contained in the hollow of the bones of animals (Job 21:23); used figuratively for the delicate and most satisfying provisions of the Gospel (Isaiah 25:6), and likewise in the New Testament for the most secret thoughts of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). Other terms so rendered are חֵלֶב (che'leb, Psalms 63:5, fat or fatness, as elsewhere rendered) and שַׁקּוּי(shikku'y, Proverbs 3:8, a moistening, i.e. refreshing of the bones; or "drink," as in Hosea 2:5).