כָּרָע
kara · legs
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3767 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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kara (כָּרָע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “legs”.
(of an animal or of a locust), the lower part of the leg.
How to say it
ka·ra
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
- An animal's legs.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 12:9
Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all in water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts.
- Exodus 29:17
You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and with its head.
- Leviticus 1:9
Its entrails and its legs he shall wash in water, and the priest shall offer up in smoke all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.
- Leviticus 1:13
The entrails and the legs he shall wash in water, and the priest shall present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.
- Leviticus 4:11
But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and with its legs, its entrails and its dung,
- Leviticus 8:21
The entrails and the legs he washed in water, and Moses offered up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, it was a fire offering to YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:14
He washed the entrails and the legs and offered them up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.
- Leviticus 11:21
But these you may eat of all the winged insects that walk on all fours: those that have jointed legs above their feet with which to leap on the earth.
- Amos 3:12
Thus says YHWH: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the children of Israel be rescued, who dwell in Samaria at the corner of a bed and in Damascus of a couch.