Knee
בְּרַךְStrong’s H1291berekh (be-rekh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Berekh is the Aramaic word usually translated “knees his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Meaning
- Knee
How it's translated
- 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
בְּרַךְ berekh · knee
knee Aramaic of be.rekh (בֶּ֫רֶךְ "knee" H1290)
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.