dry bone
Parched skeletal remains
A dry bone is a bone with no flesh, marrow, or moisture remaining—completely desiccated, as from long exposure or ancient death.
The phrase appears most often in biblical and spiritual contexts, evoking death, desolation, or miraculous revival: The valley was full of dry bones.
In folk and blues music, "dry bones" suggests the skeletal remainder after life has departed, sometimes personified: Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
- EzekielHebrew prophet in captivity
- skullHead's bone casing
- resurrectionRevival from death
- crackNarrow break or attempt
- prophecyForetelling of future events
jaw · hope · femur · rattling · renewal · fossil · ancient burial · desolation · hollow · ossification · lifelessness · dead and gone · barrenness · spine · rib · skeletal remains · valley · tibia
dry bonewarm body
Any available person
living tissue · living being · flesh and blood · fresh blood · spirit-filled
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