Leg
כֶּ֫רַעStrong’s H3767kara (ka-ra)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kara is the Hebrew word usually translated “legs its” and “legs”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.”
Meaning
- Leg
How it's translated
- legs its 2
- and legs its 2
- the legs 2
- legs 2
- and the legs 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Exodus 2
- Amos 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:17And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
- Leviticus 1:9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:13But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
- Leviticus 4:11And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
- Leviticus 8:21And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:14And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
Hebrew dictionary
כֶּ֫רַע kara · leg
leg
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leg” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEG, noun
- The limb of an animal, used in supporting the body and in walking and running; properly, that part of the limb from the knee to the foot, but in a more general sense, the whole limb, including the thigh, the leg and the foot.
- The long or slender support of any thing; as the leg of a table.
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.