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# שׁוֹק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7785

**leg** — used 19 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/1513/7785/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹק: leg [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7785/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f. Lv 7:33 cf. AlbrZAW xvl (1896), 76 f., so Arabic, v. Lane WAG, § 290 (δ)\] leg;—שׁ׳ abs. 1 S 9:24 +, cstr. Ex 29:27 +; du. שֹׁקַיִם Dt 28:35; Pr 26:7, cstr. שׁוֹקֵי ψ 147:10, sf. שׁוֹקָיו Ct 5:15;—leg: of man, specif. lower leg, calf, disting. from thigh, in וַיַּךְ אוֹתָם שׁ׳ עַל־יָרֵךְ Ju 15:8 he smote them, leg upon thigh, i.e. utterly (cf. GFM), Dt 28:35 (‖ בִּרְכַּיִם), Pr 26:7 ψ 147:10; Ct 5:15; of woman (city personif.) Is 47:2. of sacrificial animal, specif. upper leg, thigh, hind leg, portion eaten 1 S 9:24 (cf. Klein ZPV vl (1883), 98, cited also by NesMarg. 13), שׁ׳ הַיָּמִין right thigh Ex 29:32 + 6 times P (v. יָמִין), שׁ׳ הַתְּרוּמָה Lv 7:34 + 4 times P, thigh of contribution (v. ת׳ p. 929).—𝔊 βραχίων, 𝔙 armus, hence AV al. shoulder, but v. Di Baen Dr Dt 18:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the thigh (12); legs (3); a leg (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 26:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.7/#tree)

דַּלְי֣וּ שֹׁ֭קַיִם מִפִּסֵּ֑חַ וּ֝מָשָׁ֗ל בְּפִ֣י כְסִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* they.hang.down legs from a.lame.\[person\] and a.proverb in.\[the\] mouth of.fools

*JPS 1917:* The legs hang limp from the lame; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

[Psalms 147:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.10/#tree)

לֹ֤א בִגְבוּרַ֣ת הַסּ֣וּס יֶחְפָּ֑ץ לֹֽא־בְשׁוֹקֵ֖י הָאִ֣ישׁ יִרְצֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* not in the.strength of.(the) horse he.delights not in the.legs of.(the) man he.takes.pleasure

*JPS 1917:* He delighteth not in the strength of the horse; He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7785.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7785/): 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).