yarech · thigh

What it means

yarech (יָרֵךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thigh”.

Hip; on the lampstand, the base. "Those who came out of his thigh" are, in Hebrew idiom, someone's descendants. An oath could be sworn with the hand under the thigh.

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 part of the leg near the hip, where the sword is strapped and an oath is sworn.
2. The side or foot of something, like the side of the altar or the base of the lampstand.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thigh ×17
• side ×7
• hip ×5
• base ×3
• thighs ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×7
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×6
• Judges×4
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 24:2

  Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who ruled over all that he had, “Put, please, your hand under my thigh,

• Genesis 24:9

  The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord and swore to him concerning this matter.

• Genesis 32:25

  When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

• Genesis 32:31

  The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

• Genesis 32:32

  That is why, to this day, the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon that is on the socket of the hip, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip, on the tendon.

• Genesis 46:26

  All the persons who came with Jacob to Egypt, who came out of his thigh, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons, all the persons were sixty-six.

• Genesis 47:29

  The days of Israel drew near to die, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal with me in loyal love and faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt.

• Exodus 1:5

  All the persons who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy persons; and Joseph was in Egypt.

• Exodus 25:31

  You shall make a lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work the lampstand shall be made: its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 28:42

  Make for them linen undergarments to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the hips to the thighs they shall reach.

• Exodus 32:27

  And he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, Elohim of Israel: ‘Each man, put his sword on his side; pass through and return from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each man, his brother, and each man his companion, and each man his relative.’”

• Exodus 37:17

  And he made the lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work he made the lampstand, its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of one piece with it.

• Exodus 40:22

  And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the dwelling northward, outside the veil,

• Exodus 40:24

  And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the dwelling southward,

• Leviticus 1:11

  He shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before YHWH, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash its blood against the altar all around.

• Numbers 3:29

  The families of the sons of Kohath shall camp on the side of the dwelling, on the south.

• Numbers 3:35

  And the chief of the fathers’ house of the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail. They shall camp on the side of the dwelling, on the north.

• Numbers 5:21

  then the priest shall make the woman swear the oath of imprecation, and the priest shall say to the woman, ‘May YHWH make you an imprecation and an oath among your people, when YHWH makes your thigh sag and your belly swell;

• Numbers 5:22

  may this water that brings a curse go into your bowels to make the belly swell and the thigh sag.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, amen.’

• Numbers 5:27

  When he has made her drink the water, then it shall be that if she has made herself unclean and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse shall enter into her to become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh sag, and the woman shall become an imprecation among her people.

• Numbers 8:4

  And this was the workmanship of the lampstand: hammered work of gold; from its base to its blossoms it was hammered work. According to the vision that YHWH had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made for himself a sword; it had two edges, a cubit in length, and he strapped it under his clothes, on his right thigh.

• Judges 3:21

  Ehud reached out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.

• Judges 8:30

  Gideon had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.

• 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.

• 2 Kings 16:14

  The bronze altar that was before YHWH, he moved from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of YHWH, and put it on the side of the altar toward the north.

• Psalms 45:3

  Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one, your splendor and your majesty.

• Song of Songs 3:8

  All of them holding the sword, trained in war, each with his sword at his thigh because of dread in the nights.

• Song of Songs 7:1

  How beautiful are your steps in sandals, daughter of a noble! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a craftsman.

• Jeremiah 31:19

  For after I turned away, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck on my thigh; I was ashamed, and also humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’

• Ezekiel 21:12

  Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the chiefs of Israel. Thrown to the sword they are with my people; therefore strike your thigh.

• Ezekiel 24:4

  Gather its pieces into it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder; with the choicest of the bones fill it.

And 2 more times.