A cheerful heart ¹  brings good healing, ²  but a crushed spirit ³  dries up the bones. ⁴ 

ב (Bet) He has made my mortal skin ¹  waste away; he has broken my bones.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph ¹  had made the Israelites solemnly swear, ²  “God will surely attend ³  to you, and you will carry ⁴  my bones up from this place with you.”

After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ¹  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines ¹  with human bones.

My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; ¹  I have escaped ²  alive ³  with only the skin of my teeth.

His bones ¹  were full of his youthful vigor, ²  but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

Or a person is chastened ¹  by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones, ² 

Have mercy on me, ¹  Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking! ² 

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, ¹  so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

“At that time ¹  Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, ²  and he will become skin and bones. ³ 

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said to him, “Sovereign Lord, you know.”

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

My strength drains away like water; ¹  all my bones are dislocated; my heart ²  is like wax; it melts away inside me.

He made cursing a way of life, ¹  so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil. ²