Knee
בֶּ֫רֶךְStrong’s H1290berekh (be-rekh)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Berekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “knees his”, “knees” and “knees my”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.”
Meaning
- Knee
- Weak from fear (fig.)
How it's translated
- knees his 6
- knees 6
- knees my 4
- the knees 2
- knees her 2
- and knees 2
- knees of 1
- knees their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Judges 3
- 1 Kings 3
- Isaiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- 2 Kings 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
- Genesis 48:12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
- Genesis 50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
- Deuteronomy 28:35The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
- Judges 7:5So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
- Judges 7:6And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫רֶךְ berekh · knee
1) knee 2) weak from fear (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: be.rekh (בְּרַךְ "knee" H1291)
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.