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Bosom [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z.

2. The breast of a human being and the parts adjacent.

3. The folds or covering of clothes about the breast.

4. Put thy hand in thy bosom Exodus 4:6 .

5. Embrace, as with the arms; inclosure; compass; often implying friendship or affection; as, to live in the bosom of a church.

6. The breast, as inclosing the heart; or the interior of the breast, considered as the seat of the passions.

7. Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9 .

8. Their soul was poured into their mother's bosom Lamentations 2:12 .

9. The breast, or its interior, considered as a close place, the receptacle of secrets.

10. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom Job 31:33 .

11. Any inclosed place; the interior; as the bosom of the earth or of the deep.

12. The tender affections; kindness; favor; as the son of his bosom; the wife of thy bosom

13. He shall carry the lambs in his bosom Isaiah 40:11 .

14. The arms, or embrace of the arms. Psalms 129:7 .

15. Inclination; desire. [Not used.]

16. Bosom, in composition, implies intimacy, affection and confidence; as a bosom-friend, an intimate or confidential friend; bosom-lover, bosom-interest, bosom-secret, etc. In such phrases, bosom may be considered as an attribute equivalent to intimate, confidential, dear.

Bosom [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To inclose in the bosom; to keep with care.

2. Bosom up my counsel.

3. To conceal; to hide from view.

4. To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines.

Bosom [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the bosom.

2. Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

Bosom [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

2. The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.

3. Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.

4. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.

5. The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.

6. Inclination; desire.

7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.

Bosom [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

Bosom Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

See ACCUBATION.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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Bosomed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Inclosed in the breast; concealed.

Bosomed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

Bosomed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Bosom

Bosoming [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Bosom

Bosomy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

Interiority Roget’s Thesaurus §221

N. interiority, inside, interior, interspace, subsoil, substratum, intrados, contents, substance, pith, marrow, backbone, heart, bosom, breast, abdomen, vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap, penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses, cave

V. be inside, within, place within, keep within, inclose, intern, imbed

Adj. interior, internal, inner, inside, inward, intraregarding, inmost, innermost, deep seated, gut, intestine, intestinal, inland, subcutaneous, abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic, interstitial, inwrought, inclosed, home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular, endemic

Adv. internally, inwards, within, in, inly, here in, there in, where in, ab intra, withinside, in doors, within doors, at home, in the bosom of one's family

Intellect Roget’s Thesaurus §450

N. intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, vernunft, verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, cpu, arithmetic and logical unit, alu, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist &c

V. note, notice, mark, take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of, realize, appreciate, ruminate, fancy

Adj. intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason

Adv. in petto

Phr. ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, "my mind is my kingdom", "stern men with empires in their brains", "the mind, the music breathing from her face", "thou living ray of intellectual fire"

Affections Roget’s Thesaurus §820

N. affections, affect, character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone, temper, temperament, diathesis, idiosyncrasy, cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul, predilection, turn, natural turn of mind, bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency|, vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle, sympathy, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul, backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion, furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy, fervor, fire, force

V. have affections, possess affections, be of a character, be affected, breathe

Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast, attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed, prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn, inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate, pathoscopic|, congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain, affective

Adv. in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul

Phr. "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire"

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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 despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

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, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow.

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, it was turned again as his other flesh.

“Put your hand back inside your cloak,” said the LORD. So Moses put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his skin.

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 beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

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, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

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, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

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 tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Ruth 4:16

And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.

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 his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

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 been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.

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 her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

So his servants said to him, “Let us search for a young virgin for our lord the king, to attend to him and care for him and lie by his side to keep him warm.”

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 my bosom.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

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 his own bed.

But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.

Job 31:33

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

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.

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Psalms 74:11

Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

Psalms 79:12

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Psalms 89:50

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

Psalms 129:7

Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?