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Lexicon :: Strong's H1290 - bereḵ

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בֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration
bereḵ
Pronunciation
beh'-rek
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 285a

Strong’s Definitions

בֶּרֶךְ berek, beh'-rek; from H1288; a knee:—knee.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's H1290 in the following manner: knee (25x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's H1290 in the following manner: knee (25x).

  1. knee

  2. weak from fear (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֶּרֶךְ berek, beh'-rek; from H1288; a knee:—knee.
STRONGS H1290: Abbreviations
† בֶּ֫רֶךְ noun feminineIsaiah 45:23 knee (Assyrian birku COTGloss; Ethiopic bdb013901 Aramaic בֶּרֶךְ bdb013902) Isaiah 45:23; dual בִּרְכַּיִם Job 3:12 + 10 times; suffix בִּרְכַּי etc. Genesis 30:3 + 11 times; — knee, knees: מים ברכים water reaching to the knees Ezekiel 47:4; וַתְּנִיעֵנִי על ברכי Daniel 10:10; יַכְּכָה בשׁחין רע על הברכים Deuteronomy 28:35; כרע על ברכים 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; שׂם פניו בין ברכיו put his face between his knees in prayer 1 Kings 18:42; על ברכים upon the knees, Genesis 30:3 (E; on תֵּלֵד עַל ב׳ see PlossDas Weib Aufi. 2. ii. 180 ff. StaZAW 1886, 143 ff.) Genesis 50:23 (E) Job 3:12; Judges 16:10; 2 Kings 4:20; Isaiah 66:12; הוציא מעם ברכים Genesis 48:12 (E); knees as seat of strength, weak from terror Job 4:4; Isaiah 35:3; Ezekiel 7:17; Ezekiel 21:12; Nahum 2:11; or fasting Psalm 109:24.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

30:3; 30:3; 48:12; 50:23

Deuteronomy

28:35

Judges

7:5; 7:6; 16:10

1 Kings

8:54; 18:42; 19:18

2 Kings

1:13; 4:20

2 Chronicles

6:13

Ezra

9:5

Job

3:12; 3:12; 4:4

Psalms

109:24

Isaiah

35:3; 45:23; 45:23; 45:23; 66:12

Ezekiel

7:17; 21:12; 47:4

Daniel

10:10

Nahum

2:11

H1290

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1290 matches the Hebrew בֶּרֶךְ (bereḵ),
which occurs 26 times in 25 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - Then Joseph removed them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - and saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:35 - The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.[fn] And his strength left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:54

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 - When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42 - So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:18 - Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:20 - After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,[fn] and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:5 - Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the LORD my God

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 - Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:3 - Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:23 - By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:12 - For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17 - Every hand will go limp; every leg will be wet with urine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4 - He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:10 - A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10 - She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.
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