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# אַבְרֵךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H86

**kneel** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

kneel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/86/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** proclaimed before Joseph Gn 41:43 (mng. dub.; many Egypt. deriv. proposed; e.g. a-bor-k, Copt. = prostrate thyself! BenfeyVerh. d. äg. Spr. z. Sem. 302 f; āprek, = head bowed! ChabasRA I—but ā = ע, v. also WiedemannAltäg. Wörter 1883, 8; aprex-u, head of the wise, HarkavyBerl. äg. Zeftschr. 1869; ȧb-rek, rejoice thou! CookSpeaker’s Comm. Gn. ad loc. and p. 482; Lepage RenoufPSBA Nov. 1888, 5 f ȧb(u)-rek, thy command is our desire, i.e. we are at thy service; SayRel. Bab. 183 As. abrikku = Ak. abrik, vizier (unpub. tabl.), v. already DlW; L 134 c., 1. 11. 12 who cp. As. abarakku = title, perh. grand vizier; against Dl, v. COT & NöZMG 1886, 734). SpiegelbergRandglossen 14 ff. expl. as Egyptian ʾbrk = give attention!).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bend the knee (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.43/#tree)

וַיַּרְכֵּ֣ב אֹת֗וֹ בְּמִרְכֶּ֤בֶת הַמִּשְׁנֶה֙ אֲשֶׁר־ל֔וֹ וַיִּקְרְא֥וּ לְפָנָ֖יו אַבְרֵ֑ךְ וְנָת֣וֹן אֹת֔וֹ עַ֖ל כָּל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.made.ride him in the.chariot of the.second which \[belonged\].to him and they.proclaimed before him bend.the.knee and he.put him over all the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him: 'Abrech'; and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/86.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/86/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).