ḥazeh

• Names a cut of meat carved off an animal that has already been killed, a piece of food rather than a part of any living body.Lev 7:31Lev 9:20
• It is the piece lifted up and presented before the LORD in the offering, which is why the text keeps calling it the "breast" of the waving.Exo 29:26Lev 7:30
• It is a standing food allowance: the priest and his sons and daughters eat it as their permanent due, always named alongside the thigh they also receive.Lev 10:14Num 18:18
• Every place it occurs is an instruction or a report about the offerings, so it belongs to the vocabulary of the altar and never describes a person.Lev 8:29Num 6:20

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• Names the nursing breast of a living body, the place a baby feeds from and is later weaned away from.Job 3:12Jol 2:16Isa 28:9
• It stands for a mother's care and for the fruitfulness that keeps a family alive, so a blessing or a curse can be spoken over it.Gen 49:25Hos 9:14Psa 22:9
• It belongs to the language of love poetry, where a woman's breasts are admired and compared to fawns and to clusters of fruit.Sng 4:5Sng 7:8
• It carries a whole range of pictures beyond the body itself: nations pictured as feeding a child, a city comforting her people like a nursing mother, and a woman shamed by what was done to her.Isa 60:16Isa 66:11Ezk 23:3
• When it is used of an animal it is still a living mother suckling her young, never a portion of meat: even jackals give the breast to their cubs.Lam 4:3

• Only ever names a cut of a sacrificed animal. Every place it appears is an instruction about an offering, so it never describes the body of a living person or beast.Lev 7:31Lev 9:20
• This is the piece that is lifted and presented before the LORD, held out in a gesture of offering before anyone may eat it.Exo 29:26Lev 7:30Lev 8:29
• Once presented it belongs to the whole priestly household, Aaron together with all his sons, rather than to one man who happened to do the work.Lev 7:31
• At the ceremony that installed the priests, this was the portion set aside for the one presiding over the ceremony, which is why Moses took it for himself.Exo 29:26Lev 8:29

• The two are named together as a fixed pair, the standing priestly portion of the peace offering, so often that neither is described without the other in view.Lev 7:34
• Both are taken out of an animal the worshiper brought and become the priests' food, eaten with their sons and daughters in a clean place.Lev 10:14
• Both are held out before the LORD before anyone eats them, so each reaches the priest's table only after it has been offered.Lev 9:21Num 6:20
• Both are granted by the LORD's own decree as a lasting due, not a courtesy the worshiper may withhold.Exo 29:27Num 18:18
• Both are plain cuts of meat off the same carcass, which is why the same rules can govern them side by side in one sentence.Lev 10:15

• Names an ordinary living leg, part of a person's body in everyday description, well outside any offering text.Deu 28:35Psa 147:10Sng 5:15
• Because it names a real limb, it carries pictures a butchered cut never could: a body stripped bare in shame, a leg that hangs useless, a slaughter that leaves men in pieces.Isa 47:2Pro 26:7Jdg 15:8
• In the offering rules this piece is handed over as a contribution to the single priest who does the work at the altar, so it is one man's wage rather than a family's food.Lev 7:32Lev 7:33
• It also turns up among the pieces laid out with the fat when the priests were installed, grouped with what went to the altar rather than with what was eaten.Exo 29:22Lev 8:25Lev 8:26
• Away from the altar it works as the guest of honor's helping at a shared meal, the cut set before the man being singled out.1Sa 9:24

• Names a piece of meat cut from an animal that has already been killed, a portion of food rather than a part of anyone's living body.Lev 7:31Lev 9:20Lev 9:21
• It is the portion lifted up and presented before the LORD at the altar, which is why older Bibles keep calling it the "breast" of the wave offering.Exo 29:26Lev 7:30Lev 8:29
• It is a standing food allowance handed over by law: the priest and his sons and daughters eat it as their permanent due, and it is named alongside the thigh they receive with it.Lev 7:34Lev 10:14Num 18:18
• Every place it occurs is an instruction or a report about the offerings, so it never names a spot on a person where something is held or carried.Exo 29:27Lev 10:15Num 6:20

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• Names the front of a living person, the chest or lap against which a child or a lamb is held and carried.Num 11:12Rut 4:161Ki 17:19Isa 40:11
• Because it is the place of closest physical nearness, it stands for intimacy itself: the dearest wife is the one "of your bosom", and handing a woman over is putting her into a man's embrace.Gen 16:5Deu 13:6Deu 28:54Mic 7:5
• It is a place things are put into and hidden, so an object can be carried there: a hand tucked inside the fold of a robe, a bribe taken from a secret hold, the lot shaken out in the lap.Exo 4:6Pro 6:27Pro 16:33Pro 17:23
• It becomes the picture of where a payback lands, the place God drops back into a person's own hold what that person has done.Psa 35:13Psa 79:12Isa 65:6Jer 32:18
• It reaches inward as well, naming the hidden self where feelings settle and where a person aches.Job 19:27Psa 89:50Ecc 7:9
• Used of a thing rather than a person, it names a hollow or a scooped-out base, never a share of anything: the well of a chariot filling with blood, and the recessed footing of the altar, so even at the altar the word describes a shape and not a piece of the meat.1Ki 22:35Ezk 43:13Ezk 43:14Ezk 43:17