עָצַם
ʻâtsam(aw-tsam')
“to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; to crunch the bones”
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Definition
From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)
Strong’s Definition
to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; to crunch the bones
Translated in KJV as
break the bonesclosebe greatbe increasedbe (wax) mighty(-ier)be moreshutbe(-come, make) strong(-er).
Etymology
a primitive root; also denominatively (from H6106 (עֶצֶם))
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