Strong’s H1290 · Hebrew
בֶּרֶךְ
berek
beh'-rek
Definition
a knee
Etymology
from H1288 (בָרַךְ);
Where the KJV renders it
- knee
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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