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Lexicon :: Strong's H3409 - yārēḵ

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יָרֵך
Transliteration
yārēḵ
Pronunciation
yaw-rake'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to be soft
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 916a

Strong’s Definitions

יָרֵךְ yârêk, yaw-rake'; from an unused root meaning to be soft; the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side:—× body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's H3409 in the following manner: thigh (21x), side (7x), shaft (3x), loins (2x), body (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's H3409 in the following manner: thigh (21x), side (7x), shaft (3x), loins (2x), body (1x).

  1. thigh, side, loin, base

    1. thigh

      1. outside of thigh (where sword was worn)

      2. loins (as the seat of procreative power)

    2. side (flank) (of object)

    3. base

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָרֵךְ yârêk, yaw-rake'; from an unused root meaning to be soft; the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side:—× body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.
STRONGS H3409: Abbreviations
† יָרֵךְ noun feminineNumbers 5:27 thigh, loin, side, base (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יַרְכָּא; Zinjirli ירך loin; Assyrian arku, arkâtu, back, rear, hereafter DlHWB 242; Arabic bdb043704 hip) — absolute יָרֵךְ Judges 15:8 + 6 times; construct יֶ֫רֶךְ Genesis 24:9 + 11 times + 2 Samuel 3:27 (see below); suffix יְרֵכִי Genesis 24:2; Genesis 47:29; יְרֵכֵךְ Numbers 5:21; יְרֵכוֺ Genesis 32:26 + 6 times; יְרֵכָהּ Exodus 25:31+ 3 times; dual יְרֵכַיִם Exodus 28:42; suffix יְרֵכַיִךְ Songs 7:2; —
1. thigh,
a. outside of thigh, where sword was worn, שִׂים חֶרֶב עַליְֿרֵכוֺ Exodus 32:27 (E); וַיַחְגֹּר אֹתָהּ עַליֶֿרֶךְ יְמִינוֺ Judges 3:16 and he girded it upon his right thigh, Judges 3:21; Psalm 45:4; Songs 3:8; כַּף הַיָּרֵךְ Genesis 32:33 hollow of the thigh, Genesis 32:26 (twice in verse); Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] (all J); חַמּוּקֵי יְרֵכַיִךְ Cant 7:2 the roundings of thy thighs; מִמָּתְנַיִם וְעַדיְֿרֵכַיִם Exodus 28:42 (P); || בֶּטֶן Numbers 5:21, 22, 27 (P); צֹלֵעַ עַליְֿרֵכוֺ Genesis 32:32 (J), limping upon his thigh; סָפַק עַליָֿרֵח Jeremiah 31:19 and (with אֶלֿ) Ezekiel 21:17, smite upon, thigh, in token of consternation; וַיַּךְ אוֺתָם שׁוֺק עַלֿ יָרֵךְ Judges 15:8 and he smote them, hip upon thigh, a great slaughter.
b. thigh = loins, as seat of procreative power (RSK. 34; Semitic i, 360 (380)) יֹצְאֵי ירך those proceeding from the loins of any one Genesis 46:26; Exodus 1:5 (both P), Judges 8:30; hence שִׂים יַד תַּחַת ירך place the hand under thigh, in taking oath Genesis 24:2, 9 (J), Genesis 47:29.
2. side (flank) of altar 2 Kings 16:14; Leviticus 1:11 (P); of tabernacle Exodus 40:22, 24; Numbers 3:29, 35 (all P); also יֶרֶךְ הַשַּׁעַר (for MT תּוֺךְ הַשּׁ׳) Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr Bu Kit.
3. base (loins) of candlestick Exodus 25:31; Exodus 37:17; Numbers 8:4 (all P).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3410.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:2; 24:2; 24:9; 24:9; 32:26; 32:26; 32:32; 32:32; 46:26; 47:29; 47:29

Exodus

1:5; 25:31; 25:31; 28:42; 28:42; 32:27; 37:17; 40:22; 40:24

Leviticus

1:11

Numbers

3:29; 3:35; 5:21; 5:21; 5:22; 5:27; 5:27; 8:4

Judges

3:16; 3:21; 8:30; 15:8; 15:8

2 Samuel

3:27

2 Kings

16:14

Psalms

45:4

Song of Songs

3:8; 7:2; 7:2

Jeremiah

31:19

Ezekiel

21:17

H3409

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Strong's Number H3409 matches the Hebrew יָרֵך (yārēḵ),
which occurs 34 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who ruled over all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh H3409,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant placed his hand under the thigh H3409 of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - And he saw that he had not prevailed against him, so he touched the socket of his thigh H3409; and so the socket of Jacob’s thigh H3409 was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:31 - And the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh H3409.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh H3409 because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh H3409 in the sinew of the hip.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt, who came out of his loins H3409, excluding the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 -

Then the days for Israel to die drew near, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh H3409 and deal with me in lovingkindness and truth. Please do not bury me in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - And all the [fn]persons who came from the loins H3409 of Jacob were seventy [fn]in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:31 -

“Then you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand, its base H3409, and its shaft are to be made of hammered work; its cups, its [fn]bulbs, and its flowers shall be [fn]of the same piece.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:42

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:42 - “You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh; they shall [fn]reach from the loins even to the thighs H3409.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Every man among you put his sword upon his thigh H3409, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother and every man his friend and every man his [fn]neighbor.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:17 -

Then he made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work, its base H3409 and its shaft; its cups, its [fn]bulbs, and its flowers were [fn]of the same piece.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:22 - Then he put the table in the tent of meeting on the north side H3409 of the tabernacle, outside the veil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - Then he placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side H3409 of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:11 - ‘And he shall slaughter it on the side H3409 of the altar northward before Yahweh, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:29 - The families of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the southward side H3409 of the tabernacle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the leader of the fathers’ households of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the northward side H3409 of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh H3409 fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:22 - and this water that brings curses shall go into your [fn]stomach and make your abdomen swell and your thigh H3409 fall away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh H3409 will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:4 - Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base H3409 to its flowers it was hammered work; according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:16 - And Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a [fn]cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh H3409 under his cloak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:21 - Then Ehud sent forth his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh H3409, and thrust it into his belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - Now Gideon had seventy sons who [fn]were his direct H3409 descendants, for he had many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:8 - And he struck them [fn]ruthlessly H3409 with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:14 - Now as for the bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, [fn]he drew it away from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and he put it on the north side H3409 of his altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:3 -

Gird Your sword on Your thigh H3409, O [fn]Mighty One,

In Your splendor and Your majesty!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:8 -

“All of them are those who seize the sword,

Learned in war;

Each man has his sword at his side H3409,

Guarding against the [fn]dreadful things of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:1 -

“[fn]How beautiful are your [fn]feet in sandals,

O noble’s daughter!

The curves of your thighs H3409 are like ornaments,

The work of the hands of an artist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:19 -

‘For after I turned away, I repented;

And after I was instructed, I slapped my thigh H3409;

I was ashamed and also dishonored

Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:12 - “Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people; therefore slap your thigh H3409.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:4 -

[fn]Put in it the pieces,

Every good piece, the thigh H3409 and the shoulder;

Fill it with choice bones.

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