Lexical Summary berek: the knee Original Word: בֶּרֶךְTransliteration: berek Phonetic Spelling: (beh'-rek) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: the knee Meaning: the knee Strong's Concordance knee From barak; a knee -- knee. see HEBREW barak Brown-Driver-Briggs H1290. berek בֶּ֫רֶךְ noun feminineIsaiah 45:23 knee (Assyrian birku COTGloss; Ethiopic Aramaic בֶּרֶךְ ) 45:23; dual בִּרְכַּיִם Job 3:12 10t.; suffix בִּרְכַּי etc. Genesis 30:3 11t.; — knee, knees: ברכים מים water reaching to the knees Ezekiel 47:4; ברכי על וַתְּנִיעֵנִי Daniel 10:10; הברכים על רע בשׁחין יַכְּכָה Deuteronomy 28:35; ברכים על כרע kneel on knees in worship 1 Kings 8:54; Ezra 9:5 compare Isaiah 45:23; 1 Kings 19:18; 2 Chronicles 6:13, in entreaty 2 Kings 1:13, to drink of a fountain Judges 7:5-6, ברכיו בין פניו שׂם put his face between his knees in prayer 1 Kings 18:42; ברכים על upon the knees, Genesis 30:3 (E; on ב עַל ׳תֵּלֵד see PlossDas Weib Aufi. 2. ii. 180 ff. StaZAW 1886, 143 ff.) 50:23 (E) Job 3:12; Judges 16:10; 2 Kings 4:20; Isaiah 66:12; ברכים מעם הוציא Genesis 48:12 (E); knees as seat of strength, weak from terror Job 4:4; Isaiah 35:3; Ezekiel 7:17; 21:12; Nahum 2:11; or fasting Psalm 109:24. |
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