berech · knee

What it means

berech (בֶּרֶךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “knee”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The leg joint; bending it is to kneel.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• knees ×24
• knee ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 30:3

  She said, “Here is my slave woman Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may bear on my knees, and I too may have children through her.”

• Genesis 48:12

  Then Joseph brought them out from beside his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the ground.

• Genesis 50:23

  Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation; also the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were born on Joseph’s knees.

• Deuteronomy 28:35

  YHWH will strike you with severe boils on the knees and on the legs, from which you will not be able to be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

• Judges 7:5

  He brought the people down to the water, and YHWH said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, you shall set apart, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.”

• Judges 7:6

  The number of those who lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water.

• Judges 16:19

  She made him sleep on her knees, and she called for a man and she shaved the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.

• 1 Kings 8:54

  And it happened, when Solomon finished praying to YHWH all this prayer and supplication, that he rose from before the altar of YHWH, from kneeling on his knees, with his hands spread out toward the heavens.

• 1 Kings 18:42

  So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

• 2 Kings 1:13

  Again he sent a third commander of fifty with his fifty. The third commander of fifty went up and came and knelt on his knees before Elijah and pleaded with him and spoke to him, “Man of Elohim, please, let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your eyes.

• 2 Kings 4:20

  He carried him and brought him to his mother, and he sat on her knees until noon, and he died.

• 2 Chronicles 6:13

  For Solomon had made a platform of bronze and set it in the middle of the enclosure, five cubits its length, five cubits its width, and three cubits its height; he stood on it, knelt on his knees in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward the heavens,

• Ezra 9:5

  And at the evening offering I rose from my affliction, and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to YHWH my Elohim,

• Job 3:12

  Why did knees receive me, and why breasts, that I should nurse?

• Job 4:4

  The one who stumbled your words have raised up, and buckling knees you have made firm.

• Psalms 109:24

  My knees give way from fasting, and my flesh has grown lean, without fat.

• Isaiah 35:3

  Strengthen the drooping hands, and the stumbling knees make firm.

• Isaiah 45:23

  By myself I have sworn; righteousness has gone out from my mouth, a word, and it will not return: that to me every knee will bend, every tongue will swear.

• Isaiah 66:12

  For thus says YHWH: “Look, I will extend to her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and you will suck; at the side you will be carried, and on her knees you will be dandled.

• Ezekiel 7:17

  All hands will grow limp, and all knees will go to water.

• Ezekiel 21:7

  And it will be, when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ you will say, ‘Because of the news, for it is coming; and every heart will melt, and all hands will go limp, and every spirit will grow faint, and all knees will run with water. Look, it is coming, and it will happen, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 47:4

  And he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, water to the knees; and he measured a thousand, and led me through, water to the waist.

• Daniel 10:10

  And look, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my knees and the palms of my hands.

• Nahum 2:10

  Empty, and emptied, and devastated; and the heart melts, and the knees totter, and trembling is in every waist, and the faces of all of them grow pale.