Knee
אַרְכֻבָּהStrong’s H0755arkhuvah (ar-khu-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Arkhuvah is the Aramaic word usually translated “knees his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.”
Meaning
- Knee
How it's translated
- and knees his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
אַרְכֻבָּה arkhuvah · knee
knee Aramaic of av.rekh (אַבְרֵךְ "to bow" H0086)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “knee” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
KNEE, noun
nee. [Latin genu.]
- In anatomy, the articulation of the thigh and leg bones.
- In ship-building, a piece of timber somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent, having two branches or arms, and used to connect the beams of a ship with her sides or timbers.
All definitions and other forms of “knee”
KNEE, verb transitive
nee. To supplicate by kneeling. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.