Thigh
יַרְכָאStrong’s H3410yarkah (yar-kah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yarkah is the Aramaic word usually translated “loins its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,”
Meaning
- Thigh, loin, flank, side, recess
How it's translated
- and loins its 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
יַרְכָא yarkah · thigh
thigh, loin, flank, side, recess Aramaic of ye.re.khah (יַרְכָה "flank" H3411)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thigh” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THIGH, noun
That part of men, quadrupeds and fowls, which is between the leg and the trunk.
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.