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# כְּרָעַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3767

**leg** — used 9 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

leg [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3767/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫רַע: leg [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3767/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] leg, (NH כֶּרַע, Aramaic כַּרְעָא, ܟܰܪܥܳܐ, Arabic كُراَع );—only du. כְּרָעַיִם Lv 11:21 + 3 times; כְּרָעָ֑יִם Lv 9:14; sf. כְּרָעָיו Ex 12:9 + 3 times;—two (bending) legs, of animals in ritual phrase of P, רֹאשׁוֹ עַל־כְּרָעָיו Ex 12:9 his head with his legs, Lv 4:11; (ה)קרב(ו) ו(ה)כרע(יו) (his) inwards and (his) legs Ex 29:17 Lv 1:9, 13; 8:21; 9:14; Am 3:12 (of legs of lamb in mouth of lion); of the long bending hinder legs of the Saltatorial Orthoptera (v. Tristr Nat. Hist. Bib. 309; Dr Joel 84) Lv 11:21 אשׁר לוֹ כְרָעַיִם מִמַּעַל לְרַגְלָיו לְנַתֵּר בָּהֵן עַל הָאָרֶץ which have bending legs above their feet, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: legs (9).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 9:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.14/#tree)

וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ אֶת־הַקֶּ֖רֶב וְאֶת־הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר עַל־הָעֹלָ֖ה הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.washed (et) the entrails and (et) the legs and he.made.\[them\].smoke on the.burnt offering to the altar

*JPS 1917:* And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar.

[Leviticus 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.4.11/#tree)

וְאֶת־ע֤וֹר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָ֑יו וְקִרְבּ֖וֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.hide of the.bull and (et) all flesh its with head its and with legs its and entrails its and dung its

*JPS 1917:* But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3767/): 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).