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Hebrew
ḥōb - bosom
(Jastrow 429)
Note the meaning ‘shirt-pocket (safe place for keeping things)’ in Biblical Hebrew (hapax in Job)
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PS
*ḥubb- (or *ḥawb-)
- chest, bosom
(SED I No. 109)
As a nominal anatomic term, C. Sem. only.