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HebrewH1290Noun (Feminine)

בֶּ֫רֶךְ

be.rekh

23Occurrences
H1290Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a knee

from H1288 (בָרַךְ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. knee 2) weak from fear (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: be.rekh (*בְּרַךְ *"knee" H1291)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

בֶּ֫רֶךְ appears 23 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Kings
3
Genesis
3
Isaiah
3
Judges
3
2 Kings
2
Ezk
2
Job
2
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 18:42BSB

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.

2 Kings 1:13BSB

So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants please be precious in your sight.

Ezk 47:4BSB

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Genesis 48:12BSB

Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.

Isaiah 66:12BSB

For this is what the LORD says:“I will extend peace to her like a river,and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream;you will nurse and be carried on her arm,and bounced upon her knees.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.