בֶּרֶךְ berekh

Hebrew word for “knee” · Strong’s H1290 · used 25 times in 25 verses

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Meaning

1) knee; 2) weak from fear (fig.); Aramaic equivalent: be.rekh (בְּרַךְ "knee" H1291)

How it is translated

Glosses given for berekh in context, with how often each is used:

• knees 24
• knee 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 7 (2), Genesis 30 (1), Genesis 48 (1), Genesis 50 (1), Deuteronomy 28 (1), Judges 16 (1), 1 Kings 8 (1), 1 Kings 18 (1), 1 Kings 19 (1), 2 Kings 1 (1)

Forms

• ברכיו 6
• ברכים 6
• ברכי 5
• הברכים 2
• ברכיה 2
• וברכים 2
• ברכיהם 1
• ברך 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with berekh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כָּרַע kara “to bow” 8
• כַּף kaph “palm” 5
• מַי mayim “water” 5
• כָּשַׁל kashal “to stumble” 3
• פָּרַשׂ paras “to spread” 3
• לָקַק laqaq “to lick” 2
• שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 3
• מָסַס masas “to melt” 2
• יָנַק yanaq “to suckle” 2
• אָמֵץ amats “to strengthen” 2
• רָפָה raphah “to slacken” 2
• מׇתְנַיִם moten “loin” 2

Key verses

The verses using berekh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 50:23 — And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.
• 1 Kings 8:54 — And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from…
• 1 Kings 18:42 — So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
• 1 Kings 19:18 — Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
• 2 Kings 1:13 — And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and…
• 2 Chronicles 6:13 — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon…
• Ezra 9:5 — And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the…
• Isaiah 35:3 — Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
• Isaiah 45:23 — I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
• Isaiah 66:12 — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be…
• Ezekiel 21:7 — And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and…
• Nahum 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.