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# יַרְכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3411

**flank** — used 28 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flank [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3411/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַרְכָה: flank, side extreme parts, recesses [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3411/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** flank, side, du. extreme parts, recesses;—sf. יַרְכָֿתוֹ Gn 49:13; du. יַרְכָתַיִם Ex 26:27; 36:32 + Ez 46:19 Qr (Kt ירכתם); יַרְכָתָ֑יִם Ex 26:23; 36:28; cstr. יַרְכְּתֵי Ju 19:1 + 20 times + 1 K 6:16 Qr (Kt ירכותי);— side, i.e. further side of Zebulun, poet. for more distant border of the his territory Gn 49:13. elsewhere always du. the two thighs, i.e. fig. angle, recess, extreme parts: as recesses of Mt. Ephr. Ju 19:1, 18; of Lebanon 2 K 19:23 = Is 37:24; of recesses or innermost part of a cave 1 S 24:4; a house Am 6:10 ψ 128:3; the pit (בּוֹר) Is 14:15 (‖ שְׁאוֹל), Ez 32:23; a ship Jon 1:5; יַרְכְּתֵי צָפוֹן remote parts of the north Is 14:13 Ez 38:6, 15; 39:2 ψ 48:3 (but here Lag proposes יר׳ רצון); יַרְכְּתֵי אָ֑רֶץ remote parts of earth Je 6:22; 25:32; 31:8; 50:41; of a long building, extreme or hinder part, so of tabernacle Ex 26:22, 23, 27; 36:27, 28, 32 (all P); of temple 1 K 6:16; of Ezek.’s temple Ez 46:19.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 28 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: remotest parts (7); the innermost parts (7); parts (5).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.15/#tree)

אַ֧ךְ אֶל־שְׁא֛וֹל תּוּרָ֖ד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי־בֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* nevertheless to Sheol you.have.been.brought.down to \[the\].remotest.parts of.\[the\].pit

*JPS 1917:* Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

[Exodus 26:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.22/#tree)

וּֽלְיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יָ֑מָּה תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֥ה קְרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and for the.innermost.parts of the.tabernacle westward you.will.make six frames

*JPS 1917:* And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3411.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3411/): 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).