Lexicon abrek: to kneel Original Word: אַבְרֵךPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: abrek Phonetic Spelling: (ab-rake') Short Definition: kneel NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of foreign origin Definitionto kneel NASB Translationbow the knee (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אַבְרֵךְ proclaimed before Joseph Genesis 41:43 (meaning dubious; many Egyptian derivatives proposed; e.g. a-bor-k, Coptic = prostrate thyself! Spiegelb Randglossen 14 ff. explained as Egyptian ±brk = give attention! Benfey Verh. d. äg. Spr. z. Semitic 302 f; ¹prek, = head bowed! Chabas RA 1, — but ¹ = ע see also Wiedemann Altäg. Wörter 1883, 8; apreχ- u, head of the wise, Harkavy Berl. äg. Zeltschr. 1869; (but Jeremiah 46:15 many MSS. ᵐ5 Aq Symm Theod ᵑ9 many moderns read אַבִּירֶ֑ךָ thy bull, i.e. Apis). — אַבִרֵךְ: Spiegelberg Randglossen 14ff. explains as Egyptian °brk = give attention! åb-rek, rejoice thou! Cook Speaker's Comm. Gn. on the passage and p. 482; Lepage Renouf PSBA.nov.1888, 5 f åb(u)-rek, thy command is our desire, i.e. we are at thy service; Say Rel. Babylonian 183 Assyrian abrikku = Akkadian abrik, vizier (unpublished tablet), see already Dl W; L 134 c., 1. 11. 12 who compare Assyrian abarakku = title, perhaps grand vizier; against Dl, see COT & Nö ZMG 1886, 734). אַבְרָם, אַבְשַׁי see אֲבִירָם, אֲבִישַׁי below II. אבה. אַבְשָׁלוֺם, אַבְשָׁלֹם see אֲבִישָׁלוֺם below II. אבה. אגא (compare Arabic , flee Frey). **Authority for Arabic verb flee is slender, but word occurs as proper name, of a mountain, and elsewhere (GFM, privately).
Strong's bow the knee Probably an Egyptian word meaning kneel -- bow the knee. |
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