Hip
מִפְשָׂעָהStrong’s H4667miphsaah (miph-sa-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Miphsaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “buttock”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.”
Meaning
- Hip, buttock, stepping region of body
How it's translated
- the buttock 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מִפְשָׂעָה miphsaah · hip
hip, buttock, stepping region of body
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HIP, noun
The projecting part of an animal formed by the osilium or haunch bone; the haunch, or the flesh that covers the bone and the adjacent parts; the joint of the thigh.
All definitions and other forms of “hip”
HIP, verb transitive
To sprain or dislocate the hip
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.