shok · thigh, leg

What it means

shok (שׁוֹק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thigh, leg”.

Of an animal or a person.

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 or thigh of an animal; in the peace offering, the priest's share.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thigh ×13
• legs ×4
• leg ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1

• Exodus 29:22

  You shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of ordination,

• Exodus 29:27

  You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution, which was waved and which was lifted up from the ram of ordination, from what is for Aaron and from what is for his sons.

• Leviticus 7:32

  And the right thigh you shall give as a contribution to the priest from your sacrifices of peace.

• Leviticus 7:33

  The one among the sons of Aaron who presents the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh as a portion.

• Leviticus 7:34

  For the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution I have taken from the sons of Israel, from their sacrifices of peace, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as a statute forever from the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 8:25

  He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.

• Leviticus 8:26

  And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before YHWH he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh.

• Leviticus 9:21

  But the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved as a wave offering before YHWH, as Moses had commanded.

• Leviticus 10:14

  The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as your portion and the portion of your sons from the sacrifices of peace of the sons of Israel.

• Leviticus 10:15

  The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring, together with the fire offerings of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering before YHWH; and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you, as a statute forever, as YHWH has commanded.”

• Numbers 6:20

  And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH; it is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and with the thigh of the contribution. And afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.

• Numbers 18:18

  But their flesh shall be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and like the right thigh, it shall be yours.

• 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 15:8

  He struck them leg on thigh, a great blow; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the crag of Etam.

• 1 Samuel 9:24

  And the cook lifted up the thigh and what was on it and set it before Saul. And he said, “Look, what has been kept back! Set it before you and eat, for it has been kept for you for the appointed time, since I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

• Psalms 147:10

  Not in the strength of the horse does he delight, nor in the legs of a man does he take pleasure.

• Proverbs 26:7

  The legs of the lame hang limp; so is a proverb in the mouth of the senseless.

• Song of Songs 5:15

  His legs are pillars of alabaster set on bases of pure gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

• Isaiah 47:2

  Take the mill and grind flour; uncover your veil, lift up the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.