“Bosom,” “lap”

• Mother’s womb
• At a meal the place of the guest of honour, hence figurative to express an inward relationship.
• The kolpos, κόλπος of mother earth is the grave.
• E.g. the kolpos, κόλπος of the sea
• E.g. The kolpos, κόλπος of the underworld

The “fold” of a loose garment used as a pocket

Generally any “arch” or “hollow,”

• E.g. the bosom of the sea
• E.g. the bosom of the floor of a valley
• Medically, “fistula”

Loving relationship

• Marital relationship

  • [bible text=”Deut 13:7, LXX” ref=”Deut 13:7” version=”LXX”] – "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  • Deut 28:54 – The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
  • Sir 9:1, LXX – Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself. (Brenton LXX)

• The fact that the wife belongs and gives herself to her husband

  • Gen 16:5 – And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
  • 2 Sam 12:8 – And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

• The fact that the husband belongs to the wife

  • Deut 28:56 – The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,

• Loving concern for a child

  • Num 11:12 – Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
  • Ruth 4:16 – Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.
  • 1 Kgs 3:20 – And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.
  • 1 Kgs 17:19 – And he said to her, "Give me your son." And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed.
  • Isa 49:22 – Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

• Loving concern for a lamb

  • 2 Sam 12:3 – but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

Fold of a garment

• Ex 4:6 – Again, the LORD said to him, "Put your hand inside your cloak." And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.
• Ex 4:7 – Then God said, "Put your hand back inside your cloak." So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.
• Job 31:34 – for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them: and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom: (Brenton, LXX)
• [bible text=”Ps 73:11, LXX” ref=”Ps 73:11” version=”LXX”] – Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!
• [bible text=”Ps 128:7, LXX” ref=”Ps 128:7” version=”LXX”] – with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
• Prov 6:27 – Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
• Prov 16:33 – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
• Prov 17:23 – The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.
• Prov 19:24 – He that unjustly hides his hands in his bosom, will not even bring them up to his mouth. (Brenton, LXX)
• Prov 30:4 – Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children? (Brenton, LXX)

The place of retribution

• [bible text=”Ps 78:12, LXX” ref=”Ps 78:12” version=”LXX”] – Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
• Isa 65:6 – Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom
• Isa 65:7 – both your iniquities and your fathers' iniquities together, says the LORD; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former deeds."
• Jer 39:18 – For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the LORD.'"

Chest, lap

• [bible text=”Ps 34:13, LXX” ref=”Ps 34:13” version=”LXX”] – But I, when they were sick–I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
• Prov 30:4 – Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children? (Brenton, LXX)

Hollow part

• Of a chariot
  • 1 Kgs 22:35 – And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.
• Of the altar
  • Ezek 43:13 – "These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar: [footnote text=“The word for &quot;base&quot; is <i>kolpōma</i>, κόλπωμα, a cognate of <i>kolpos</i>, κόλπος.”]

Seat of the reins, feelings

• Job 19:27 – whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
• Job 23:12 – neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom. (Brenton, LXX)
• [bible text=”Ps 88:51, LXX” ref=”Ps 88:51” version=”LXX”] – Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
• Eccl 7:9 – Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Midst

• Hosea 8:1 – He shall come into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law. (Brenton LXX)

• Lk 16:22 – The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
• Lk 16:23 – and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
• Jn 1:18 – No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
• Jn 13:23 – One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus,

• Lk 6:38 – give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you."

• Acts 27:39 – Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore.