Words

בֶּרֶךְ H1290

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knee

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

knee

Note

To bear "on the knees" of another is to bear a child she takes as her own (30:3; 50:23). Kept apart from בָּרַךְ "bless" and its hiphil "make kneel" (24:11)

Rulings

39

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 30

• 30:3 And she said, "Look, my slave-woman Bilhah: come to her, and let her bear on my knees, and I too shall be built from her."

Genesis 48

• 48:12 And Joseph brought them out from beside his knees, and he prostrated himself with his nostrils to the land.

Genesis 50

• 50:23 And Joseph saw for Ephraim sons of thirds; also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on the knees of Joseph.