Leg
שָׁקStrong’s H8243shaq
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shaq is the Aramaic word usually translated “legs its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.”
Meaning
- Leg (lower)
How it's translated
- legs 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
שָׁק shaq · leg
leg (lower) Aramaic of shoq (שׁוֹק "leg" H7785)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.