chek · bosom, lap

What it means

chek (חֵיק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bosom, lap”.

The chest and arms where one holds someone close.

How to say it

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

1. The chest and arms, where one holds someone close.
2. The lower part of the altar or of a chariot, where what falls collects.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bosom ×32
• base ×3
• bottom ×1
• embrace ×1
• lap ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×5
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×5
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Micah×1

• Genesis 16:5

  Then Sarai said to Abram, “The wrong done to me be on you! I myself gave my slave woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I became of little account in her eyes. May YHWH judge between me and you.”

• Exodus 4:6

  YHWH also said to him, “Please put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, look, his hand was leprous, like snow.

• Exodus 4:7

  He said, “Put back your hand into your bosom.” So he put back his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out of his bosom, look, it had become again like his other flesh.

• Numbers 11:12

  Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the nurse carries the nursing child, to the ground that you swore to their fathers’?

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your companion who is like your own soul incites you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” whom you have not known, you or your fathers,

• Deuteronomy 28:54

  The man who is the tenderest among you and very refined will look with an evil eye on his brother and on the wife of his bosom and on the rest of his children whom he has left,

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The woman who is the tenderest among you and the most refined, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicacy and tenderness, will look with an evil eye on the husband of her bosom and on her son and on her daughter,

• Ruth 4:16

  Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom and was the one who reared him.

• 2 Samuel 12:3

  but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb that he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up with him and with his sons together; from his morsel it would eat, and from his cup it would drink, and in his bosom it would lie; and it was to him like a daughter.

• 2 Samuel 12:8

  I gave you your lord’s house and your lord’s wives into your bosom, and I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that were too little, I would add to you as much and as much again.

• 1 Kings 1:2

  And his servants said to him, “Let them seek for my lord the king a young woman, a virgin, and let her stand before the king and be his caretaker; and let her lie in your bosom, so that my lord the king may get warm.”

• 1 Kings 3:20

  And she rose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me, while your servant was asleep, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom.

• 1 Kings 17:19

  He said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

• 1 Kings 22:35

  The battle rose that day, and the king was propped up in the chariot facing Aram; and he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound poured out into the bottom of the chariot.

• Job 19:27

  whom I will see for myself, and my eyes will look on him, and not a stranger. My kidneys are consumed within my bosom.

• Psalms 35:13

  But I, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted with fasting my soul, and my prayer to my bosom would return.

• Psalms 74:11

  Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? From the midst of your bosom, make an end!

• Psalms 79:12

  And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Adonai.

• Psalms 89:50

  Remember, Adonai, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my bosom that of all the many peoples,

• Proverbs 5:20

  And why would you be lost, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

• Proverbs 6:27

  Can a man carry fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

• Proverbs 16:33

  Into the lap the lot is cast, but from YHWH comes every decision of it.

• Proverbs 17:23

  A bribe from the bosom the wicked takes, to turn aside the paths of justice.

• Proverbs 21:14

  A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

• Ecclesiastes 7:9

  Do not be hasty in your spirit to be vexed, for vexation rests in the bosom of the senseless.

• Isaiah 40:11

  Like a shepherd he will tend his flock; with his arm he will gather the lambs, and in his bosom he will carry them; those that are nursing he will lead gently.

• Isaiah 65:6

  Look, it is written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; and I will repay into their bosom

• Isaiah 65:7

  your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, says YHWH, who burned incense on the mountains and on the hills taunted me; and I will measure their wages first into their bosom.”

• Jeremiah 32:18

  You show loyal love to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them, the great, mighty El, YHWH Tsevaot is his name,

• Lamentations 2:12

  To their mothers they say, “Where is grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the squares of the city, as their life is poured out into the bosom of their mothers.

• Ezekiel 43:13

  And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): the base, a cubit, and a cubit wide, and its border on its rim all around, one span; and this is the elevation of the altar.

• Ezekiel 43:14

  And from the base on the earth to the lower ledge, two cubits, and the width, one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, and the width, a cubit.

• Ezekiel 43:17

  And the ledge, fourteen long by fourteen wide, on its four sides; and the border around it, half a cubit, and its base a cubit all around; and its steps face east.”

• Micah 7:5

  Do not believe a neighbor; do not trust in a companion; from her who lies in your bosom guard the doors of your mouth.

And 4 more times.