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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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 - So she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she will bear a child on my knees, that I also may have children by her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - So Joseph brought them from beside his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:23 - Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph’s knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:35 - “The LORD will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him,[fn] and his strength left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:54

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 - And so it was, when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, that he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42 - So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on 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 have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - Again, he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, and said to him: “Man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:20 - When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - (for Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt down on his knees before all the 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 - At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 - Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
And you have strengthened the feeble knees;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:3 - Strengthen the weak hands,
And make firm the feeble knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:23 - I have sworn by Myself;
The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
And shall not return,
That to Me every knee shall bow,
Every tongue shall take an oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:12 - For thus says the LORD:

“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.
Then you shall feed;
On her sides shall you be carried,
And be dandled on her knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:17 - Every hand will be feeble,
And every knee will be as weak as water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - “And it shall be when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ that you shall answer, ‘Because of the news; when it comes, every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming and shall be brought to pass,’ says the Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:4 - Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:10 - Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10 - She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces are drained of color.[fn]
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