BONES is used widely in OT as a synonym for the body, living or dead, or the person (Psa_42:10; Psa_51:8). As the solid framework of the body, the bones are the seat of health and strength, so that breaking, rottenness, dryness of the bones are frequent figures for sickness or moral disorder (Pro_14:30; Pro_17:22, Psa_6:2; Psa_22:14). Bone of my bone answers to the English phrase of the same blood; but the concluding words of Eph_5:30 should be omitted. In Luk_24:39 the unique expression seems to emphasize the nature of the Resurrection body, as different from the ordinary flesh and blood. See Gibson, Thirty-Nine Articles, p. 188.
C. W. Emmet.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
The framework of the body; so the breaking of them expresses overwhelming sorrow, which prostrates body and mind (Isa_38:13). As the surgeon must sometimes break a bone to save a patient lameness for life, so God breaks that He may heal Self will and self righteousness must be broken, that we may run the way of God's commandments. When one has a "broken and contrite heart," "the bones which God has broken rejoice" (Psa_51:8; Psa_51:17). Not a bone of Jesus was broken, as antitype of the paschal lamb (Exo_12:46; Joh_19:33; Joh_19:36).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.