עָצֶה
atse · backbone
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6096 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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atse (עָצֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “backbone”.
The end of the spine, near the tail.
How to say it
a·tse
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The bone at the end of the spine, by the tail.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Leviticus 3:9
From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,