13 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

2 Kings 4:16

And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Proverbs 4:8

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

Proverbs 5:20

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

Ecclesiastes 3:5

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Song of Solomon 2:6

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

Song of Solomon 8:3

His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

Lamentations 4:5

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)

2 Esdras 2:15

Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them up with gladness, make their feet as fast as a pillar: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.

2 Esdras 2:32

Embrace thy children until I come and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.

Apostolic Fathers

Ignatius to the Magnesians 3:11

It is absurd to name Jesus Christ, and to Judaize. For the Christian religion did not embrace the Jewish, but the Jewish the Christian; that so every tongue that believed might be gathered together unto God.

Jubilees

Jubilees 31:6

And Rebecca came forth from the tower to the front of it to kiss Jacob and embrace him; for her spirit had revived when she heard: 'Behold Jacob thy son has come'; and she kissed

OT Pseudepigrapha

Testament of Naphtali 2:30

For there is a season for a man to embrace his wife, and a season to abstain therefrom for his prayer.