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H1290בֶּ֫רֶךְbe.rekh

kneePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 3
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. 1
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 3
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 3
  12. 2
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 1
  15. 1
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 2
  19. 1
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 3
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 3
  27. 1
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. 1
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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25 occurrences in 25 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 30:3

    And she said: 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.'

    בִּרְכַּ֔י (בִּרְכַּ֔) bir.Ka “knees”

  2. Genesis 48:12

    And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he fell down on his face to the earth.

    בִּרְכָּ֑יו (בִּרְכָּ֑י) bir.Ka “knees”

  3. Genesis 50:23

    And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.

    בִּרְכֵּ֥י bir.Kei “[the] knees of”

  4. Deuteronomy 28:35

    The LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.

    הַבִּרְכַּ֙יִם֙ (בִּרְכַּ֙יִם֙) bir.Ka.yim “knees”

  5. Judges 7:5

    So he brought down the people unto the water; and the LORD said unto Gideon: 'Everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.'

    בִּרְכָּ֖יו (בִּרְכָּ֖י) bir.Ka “knees”

  6. Judges 7:6

    And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

    בִּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם (בִּרְכֵי) bir.khei. “knees”

  7. Judges 16:19

    And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and had the seven locks of his head shaven off; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

    בִּרְכֶּ֔יהָ (בִּרְכֶּ֔י) bir.Kei. “knees”

  8. 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 kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

    בִּרְכָּ֔יו (בִּרְכָּ֔י) bir.Ka “knees”

  9. 1 Kings 18:42

    So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.

    בִּרְכָּֽיו׃ (בִּרְכָּֽי) be.ra.kho “knees”

  10. 1 Kings 19:18

    Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.'

    הַבִּרְכַּ֗יִם (בִּרְכַּ֗יִם) bir.Ka.yim “knees”

  11. 2 Kings 1:13

    And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him: 'O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty

    בִּרְכָּ֣יו׀ (בִּרְכָּ֣י) bir.Ka “knees”

  12. 2 Kings 4:20

    And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

    בִּרְכֶּ֛יהָ (בִּרְכֶּ֛י) bir.Kei. “knees”

  13. 2 Chronicles 6:13

    for Solomon had made a brazen 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 it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread f

    בִּרְכָּיו֙ (בִּרְכָּי) bir.Ka “knees”

  14. Ezra 9:5

    And at the evening offering I arose up from my fasting, even with my garment and my mantle rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God;

    בִּרְכַּ֔י (בִּרְכַּ֔) bir.Ka “knees”

  15. Job 3:12

    Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

    בִרְכָּ֑יִם vir.Ka.yim “knees”

  16. Job 4:4

    Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

    וּבִרְכַּ֖יִם (בִרְכַּ֖יִם) vir.Ka.yim “knees”

  17. Psalms 109:24

    My knees totter through fasting; and my flesh is lean, and hath no fatness.

    בִּ֭רְכַּי (בִּ֭רְכַּ) Bir.ka “knees”

  18. Isaiah 35:3

    Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.

    וּבִרְכַּ֥יִם (בִרְכַּ֥יִם) vir.Ka.yim “knees”

  19. Isaiah 45:23

    By Myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from My mouth in righteousness, and shall not come back, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

    בֶּ֔רֶךְ Be.rekh “knee”

  20. Isaiah 66:12

    For thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and ye shall suck thereof: ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.

    בִּרְכַּ֖יִם bir.Ka.yim “knees”

  21. Ezekiel 7:17

    All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.

    בִּרְכַּ֖יִם bir.Ka.yim “knees”

  22. Ezekiel 21:12

    And it shall be, when they say unto thee: Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say: Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be slack, and every spirit shall be faint, and all knees shall drip with

    בִּרְכַּ֙יִם֙ bir.Ka.yim “knees”

  23. Ezekiel 47:4

    Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the loins.

    בִּרְכָּ֑יִם bir.Ka.yim “knees”

  24. Daniel 10:10

    And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me tottering upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.

    בִּרְכַּ֖י (בִּרְכַּ֖) bir.Ka “knees”

  25. Nahum 2:11

    She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.

    בִּרְכַּ֗יִם bir.Ka.yim “knees”