Lexicon nasheh: a vein (or nerve) in the thigh Original Word: נָשֶׁהPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: nasheh Phonetic Spelling: (naw-sheh') Short Definition: hip NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom nashahDefinitiona vein (or nerve) in the thigh NASB Translationhip (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נָשֶׁה noun [masculine] a vein (or nerve) in the thigh (etymology dubious; on formative compare Lag BN 50; Arabic  apparently the portion of the principal vein of the leg which is in the thigh, vulgar sciatic vein, or (modern) sciatic nerve and even sciatica, Lane 3033); — only גִּיד הַנָּשֶׁה Gen Genesis 32:33a the sinew of the thigh-vein (or thigh-nerve, אֲשֶׁר עַלכַּֿף הַיָּרֵךְ), compare v33b. — On sacredness of thigh, compare RS Sem i. 360; 2nd ed. 380 We Heid (2), 168. נָשִׁים see אִשָּׁה above
Strong's which shrank From nashah, in the sense of failure; rheumatic or crippled (from the incident to Jacob) -- which shrank. see HEBREW nashah |
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