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בֶּרֶךְ H1290

H1290 is the Hebrew word בֶּרֶךְ, transliterated berek and said beh'-rek. The King James Version most often renders it knees.

Word: בֶּרֶךְTransliteration: berekSaid: beh'-rekLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 21 verses

What it means

a knee.

Where it comes from

from H1288 (בָרַךְ).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 21 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

knees 18×between his knees 1×why did the knees 1×every knee 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: knee.

Verses using בֶּרֶךְ

All 21 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 30:3 · KJV

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

Genesis 48:12 · KJV

And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:35 · KJV

The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

Judges 7:5 · KJV

So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one 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.

Judges 7:6 · KJV

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

Judges 16:19 · KJV

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

1 Kings 8:54 · KJV

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 up to heaven.

1 Kings 18:42 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

2 Kings 4:20 · KJV

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

2 Chronicles 6:13 · KJV

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 it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,

Ezra 9:5 · KJV

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 LORD my God,

Job 3:12 · KJV

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Psalm 109:24 · KJV

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Isaiah 45:23 · KJV

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.

Ezekiel 7:17 · KJV

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Ezekiel 21:7 · KJV

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 all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 47:4 · KJV

Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.

Daniel 10:10 · KJV

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

Nahum 2:10 · KJV

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 blackness.

Common questions

What does Strong's H1290 mean?

H1290 is the Hebrew word בֶּרֶךְ (berek), meaning a knee.

How is H1290 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it knees (18 times), between his knees (1 time), why did the knees (1 time), every knee (1 time).

How many times does H1290 appear in the Bible?

בֶּרֶךְ (berek) is tagged in 21 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H1290 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H1288 (בָרַךְ).

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