κνήμη
leg, shin
Where this word appears
Every passage where κνήμη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 28:35 κνήμη The Lord strike you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Judges 15:8 κνήμη And he struck them leg on thigh with a great overthrow; and went down and lived in a cave of the rock Etam.
- Psalms 146:10 κνήμη He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is he well-pleased with the legs of a man.
- Song of Solomon 5:15 κνήμη His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars.
- Isaiah 47:2 κνήμη Take a millstone, grind meal: remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.
About this word
About this word
κνήμη (knḗmē), “leg, shin,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
