# חֵיק (cheyq) Israeli respelling: cheyq. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H2436. 34 Old Testament occurrences. the bosom (literally or figuratively) King James renderings: bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/cheyq-h2436 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/5) — And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despi… - [Exodus 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/6) — And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, beh… - [Exodus 4:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/7) — And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, i… - [Numbers 11:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/12) — Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beare… - [Deuteronomy 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/13/6) — If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, en… - [Deuteronomy 28:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/54) — So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, an… - [Deuteronomy 28:56](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/56) — The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tendern… - [Ruth 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/4/16) — And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. - [2 Samuel 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/3) — But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with hi… - [2 Samuel 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/8) — And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had… - [1 Kings 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/2) — Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let h… - [1 Kings 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/3/20) — And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in… - [1 Kings 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/19) — And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon… - [1 Kings 22:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/22/35) — And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out o… - [Job 19:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/27) — Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. - [Psalms 35:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/13) — But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. - [Psalms 74:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/11) — Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. - [Psalms 79:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/79/12) — And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. - [Psalms 89:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/50) — Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; - [Proverbs 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/20) — And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? - [Proverbs 6:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/27) — Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? - [Proverbs 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/33) — The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. - [Proverbs 17:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/23) — A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. - [Proverbs 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/21/14) — A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. - [Ecclesiastes 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/9) — Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. - [Isaiah 40:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/11) — He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those t… - [Isaiah 65:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/6) — Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, - [Isaiah 65:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/7) — Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed… - [Jeremiah 32:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/18) — Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the G… - [Lamentations 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/12) — They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured… - [Ezekiel 43:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/13) — And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and t… - [Ezekiel 43:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/14) — And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle eve… - [Ezekiel 43:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/17) — And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit;… - [Micah 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/5) — Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.