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Strong's #3409: yarek (pronounced yaw-rake')

from an unused root meaning to be soft; the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphem. the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side:--X body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yârêk

1) thigh, side, loin, base

1a) thigh

1a1) outside of thigh (where sword was worn)

1a2) loins (as the seat of procreative power)

1b) side (flank) (of object)

1c) base

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to be soft



Usage:

This word is used 34 times:

Genesis 24:2: "I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:"
Genesis 24:9: "his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning"
Genesis 32:25: "not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint,"
Genesis 32:25: "of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with"
Genesis 32:31: "upon him, and he halted upon his thigh."
Genesis 32:32: "which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto day:"
Genesis 32:32: "because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank."
Genesis 46:26: "with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons'"
Genesis 47:29: "I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with"
Exodus 1:5: "And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls:"
Exodus 25:31: "of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers,"
Exodus 28:42: "their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:"
Exodus 32:27: "every man his sword by his side, and go in and out"
Exodus 37:17: "made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops,"
Exodus 40:22: "in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without"
Exodus 40:24: "over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward."
Leviticus 1:11: "And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests,"
Numbers 3:29: "of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward."
Numbers 3:35: "of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward."
Numbers 5:21: "when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;"
Numbers 5:22: "into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen,"
Numbers 5:27: "into her, and become bitter, shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse"
Numbers 8:4: "was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern"
Judges 3:16: "it under his raiment upon his right thigh."
Judges 3:21: "the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:"
Judges 8:30: "had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many"
Judges 15:8: "And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt"
2 Kings 16:14: "and the house of the LORD, it on the north side of the altar."
Psalms 45:3: "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty."
Song of Solomon 3:8: "every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night."
Song of Solomon 7:1: "O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands"
Jeremiah 31:19: "I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because"
Ezekiel 21:12: "smite therefore upon thy thigh."
Ezekiel 24:4: "it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones."









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