Shoulder
שִׁכְמָהStrong’s H7929shikhmah (shikh-mah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shikhmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from its shoulder”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.”
Meaning
- Shoulder, backshoulder, shoulder-blade · back (in general)
How it's translated
- from its shoulder 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁכְמָה shikhmah · shoulder
1) shoulder, back 1a) shoulder, shoulder-blade 1b) back (in general)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shoulder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHOULDER, noun
- The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scapula or shoulder blades, which extend from the basis of the neck in a horizontal direction.
- The upper joint of the fore leg of an animal cut for th emarket; as a shoulder of mutton.
- Shoulders, in the plural, the upper part of the back.
- Figuratively, support; sustaining power; or that which elevates and sustains.
All definitions and other forms of “shoulder”
- Among artificers, something like the human shoulder; a horizontal or rectangular projection from the body of a thing.
SHOULDER, verb transitive
- To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence.
- To take upon the shoulder; as, to shoulder a basket.
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.