יַרְכָה yerekhah
Hebrew word for “flank” · Strong’s H3411 · used 28 times in 28 verses
Meaning
1) flank, side, extreme parts, recesses; 1a) side; 1b) sides, recesses (dual); Aramaic equivalent: yar.kah (יַרְכָא "thigh" H3410)
How it is translated
Glosses given for yerekhah in context, with how often each is used:
- remotest parts 16
- innermost parts 11
- side 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exodus | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Ezekiel | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Judges | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Jonah | 1 | 1.5 |
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 26 (3), Exodus 36 (3), Judges 19 (2), Isaiah 14 (2), Ezekiel 38 (2), Genesis 49 (1), 1 Samuel 24 (1), 1 Kings 6 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1), Psalms 48 (1)
Forms
- ירכתי 7
- מירכתי 7
- בירכתי 6
- בירכתים 3
- ולירכתי 2
- לירכתים 2
- וירכתו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yerekhah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- צָפוֹן tsaphon “north” 9
- קֶרֶשׁ qeresh “board” 6
- מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 6
- יָם yam “sea” 7
- הַר har “mountain” 7
- צֵלָע tsela “side” 3
- גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 5
- מְקֻצְעָה mequtsah “corner” 2
- עוּר ur “to rouse” 3
- אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 3
- קָהָל qahal “assembly” 3
- רַב rav “many” 4
Key verses
The verses using yerekhah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 49:13 — Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
- Judges 19:1 — And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a…
- 1 Kings 6:16 — And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle,…
- Psalms 48:2 — Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
- Psalms 128:3 — Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- Isaiah 14:13 — For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the…
- Isaiah 37:24 — By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of…
- Jeremiah 6:22 — Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
- Jeremiah 31:8 — Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and…
- Jeremiah 50:41 — Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
- Amos 6:10 — And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the…
- Jonah 1:5 — Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah…
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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.