כֶּ֫רַע
leg
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute 5 times (56%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct 4 times (44%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3767 appears — 9 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 12:9 כְּרָעָ֖י/ו n c bd cs + sfx pers 3ms Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
- Exodus 29:17 וּ/כְרָעָ֔י/ו conj + n c bd cs + sfx pers 3ms You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
Leviticus 6 verses
- Leviticus 1:9 וּ/כְרָעָ֖י/ו conj + n c bd cs + sfx pers 3ms but its innards and its legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 1:13 וְ/הַ/כְּרָעַ֖יִם conj + ptcl def.art + n c bd but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 4:11 כְּרָעָ֑י/ו n c bd cs + sfx pers 3ms The bull's skin, all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, its innards, and its dung,
- Leviticus 8:21 הַ/כְּרָעַ֖יִם ptcl def.art + n c bd He washed the innards and the legs with water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a sweet savor. It was an offering made by fire to Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:14 הַ/כְּרָעָ֑יִם ptcl def.art + n c bd He washed the innards and the legs, and burned them on the burnt offering on the altar.
- Leviticus 11:21 כְרָעַ֨יִם֙ n c bd Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.
Amos 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun כרע centers on the idea of “leg.” The word gravitates to Leviticus (67%), then Exodus and Amos. It appears 9 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 12:9. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3767 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 89%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Legs 8×
- American Standard Version: Legs 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Legs 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Legs 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3767 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3767 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3767 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3767 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- leg
Word origin
Derived from כרע (kâraʻ) (H3766) — to bow.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כָּרַע
- to bow, bend the knee. Ber. 12ᵃ כשהוא כוֹרֵעַ וכ׳ when bowing in prayer, one must bow at the word barukh, opp. זָקַף. Ib. 34ᵇ; Y. ib. I, 3ᶜ bot. (interch. with שחה); a. v. fr.
- 1. to cause to kneel; to subdue; to humiliate, sadden. Gen. R. s. 65; Yalk. Gen. 114 אני מַכְרִיעַ את אוהבי I shall sadden my friend. Gen. R. s. 75, beg., v. כָּרַח. Gen. R. s. 67 מה אני מכריע וכ׳ (Yalk. ib. 116 מַעֲכִיר) why shall I sadden my father?
- 2. to put the knee of the balance down; to overbalance; to outweigh. Y. Peah I, 16ᵇ bot. הזכיות מַכְרִיעוֹת the good deeds overbalance (the sins). Ab. II, 8 מַכְרִיעַ את כלם outweighs them all. B. Bath. V, 11 חייב להַכְרִיעַ לו טפח (weighing a litra of meat or more) he must allow the scale (which contains the meat) to sink one handbreadth lower than the scale of weights, i.e. he must give overweight, opp. עיין to weigh exactly. Ib. 89ᵃ שקול לי … והַכְרִיעָהּ weigh for me each litra for itself and give me the legal overweight on it; a. fr.—Y. Sabb. I, 3ᶜ bot. הַכְרַע עליו כסף put money to it in the balance (bribe him). Gen. R. s. 80 כמה ממון ה׳ how much money he put in the balance (paid for it).—Trnsf. to cast the deciding vote, to decide. Tosef. Ḥull. VII, 1; Ḥull. 90ᵇ; Pes. 83ᵇ הדעת מַכְרַעַת reason decides, v. דַּעַת. Y. Keth. II, 26ᵇ; Y. Yeb. X, 10ᵈ bot. הדעת מכרעת בעידי מיתה (not לידי) reason decides in favor of trusting the witnesses testifying to the death of a person.
- 3. to keep the balance; trnsf. to harmonize two contrary opinions, to compromise. Sifra introd. שני כתובים המכחישים … ויַכְרִיעַ ביניהם when two Biblical verses contradict each other, you must not draw any conclusions until a third verse is found which harmonizes them. Ib. end (ref. to Ex. XIX, 20 a. Deut. IV, 36) הכ׳ השלישי a third passage (Ex. XX, 22) harmonizes (that the Lord lowered the heavens so as to make them rest on Mount Sinai); Mekh. Yithro, Baḥod. s. 9. Sifré Num. 58.—Kidd. 24ᵇ המַכְרִיעִים לפני חכמים the harmonizers arguing before the scholars. Sabb. 39ᵇ כל מקום … ואחד מכריע הלכה כדברי המכ׳ whenever you find two scholars differing and one compromising, the practice follows the opinion of the compromiser; a. fr.—V. הֶכְרַע, הַכְרָעָה. e.g. Exodus 19:20
כְּרַע
- 1. to bow, bend the knee. Targ. O. Gen. XXIV, 26 (Y. גחן). Targ. II Esth. III, 2; a. e.—Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ bot. הוא כ׳ מגרמיה it (the head) bowed spontaneously.
- 2. (of the balance) to sink, outweigh. Targ. Y. Ex. I, 15.
- 3. to decide by majority. Targ. Y. Deut. XXV, 1 (v. Snh. 10ᵃ).
- 1. to sadden. Targ. Jud. XI, 35.
- 2. to weigh. Pesik. B’shall., p. 82ᵃ באכרעתא דאַכְרְעוּן וכ׳, v. אַכְרַעְתָּא.
- to be weighed. Ib.
כֶּרַע
- c. (b. h.; [hollow, cmp. בֶּרֶךְ,] knee, leg. Zeb. VIII, 5 כַּרְעוֹ של וכ׳ the leg of one of them (Talm. ed. 77ᵇ כרעים du.). Kel. XVIII, 7 כ׳ שהיתה וכ׳ a knee-shaped piece of wood which became unclean … and which one fastened to a bedstead; Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. IX, 3. Ib. VIII, 8 כ׳ שפרש וכ׳ a leg of a bedstead which was taken off with the longside &c.; a. e.—Du. כְּרָעַיִם, כְּרָעַיִים; pl. כְּרָעִים, כְּרָעִין. Tam. IV, 2. Zeb. VIII, 5. Succ. 15ᵇ, v. אֲרוּכָה. Cant. R. to VII, 3 מה כרס … והכ׳ וכ׳ as the belly is bounded by the heart (chest) on the one, and the legs on the other. Kel. XVIII, 5; Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. VIII, 5; a. fr.
רַע I
- [shaken,] weak, sick; bad; (noun) evil. Ber. 7ᵃ מפני מה … ורע לו why is there a righteous man who fares well, and another righteous man who fares badly? Ib. 23ᵃ (ref. to Koh. IV, 17) בין טוב לרע וכ׳ they cannot distinguish between good and evil, and want to offer a sacrifice before me? Kidd. 40ᵃ (ref. to Is. III, 11) וכי יש רשע רע ויש שאינו רע is there a bad wicked man and a wicked man that is not bad?; רע לשמים ורע לבריות וכ׳ one bad in his relation to heaven (irreligious) and bad to men is a bad wicked man &c. Ohol. XVIII, 6 שכחן רע whose strength is feeble, v. כֹּחַ. Ab. II, 9 חבר רע a bad companion; לב רע a bad heart; a. v. fr.—Fem. רָעָה bad; (noun) evil. Ib., a. fr. עין ר׳, v. עַיִן. Sabb. 11ᵃ כל ד׳ ולא אשה ר׳ any evil, only not a bad wife. Ber. 61ᵃ אחת … ואחת יועצתו לר׳ one (kidney) counsels for good, the other for evil. Y. Shek. I, beg. 45ᵈ לטובה … לר׳ וכ׳ for a good purpose—‘every liberal-hearted’ (Ex. XXXV, 22), for a bad purpose—‘the whole people’ (ib. XXXII, 3). Hor. 10ᵇ אפי׳ טובתם … ר׳ היא וכ׳ even the good which wicked men do is an evil with the righteous (they do not enjoy it); Yeb. 103ᵃ sq. Koh. R. to V, 12, v. חוֹלָה I. Ber. l. c. (ref. to Koh. IV, 17) אל תהי … אם על ר׳ הם מביאים be not like the fools who sin and offer a sacrifice, not knowing whether they offer it for the good they have done or for the evil; a. v. fr.—Pl. רָעִים; רָעוֹת. Keth. 110ᵇ (quot. fr. Ben Sira) כל ימי עני ר׳ all the days of a poor man are bad; Snh. 101ᵃ. Y. Ber. V, 8ᵈ bot., v. חָצַף. Ex. R. s. 42 (ref. to Jer. II, 13) ושתי ר׳ עשו לבד have they committed no more than two evils?; a. v. fr. e.g. Ecclesiastes 4:17
רַע II
- to be evil, v. רָעַע.
רַע III
- ch. = אֲרַע, v. לרַע
רֵעַ
- , v. רֵיעַ
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Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H3767 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/כְּרָעַ֖יִם | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute | Leviticus 8:21 | 1 |
| הַ/כְּרָעָ֑יִם | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute | Leviticus 9:14 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/כְּרָעַ֖יִם | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute | Leviticus 1:13 | 1 |
| וּ/כְרָעָ֔י/ו | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct | Exodus 29:17 | 1 |
| וּ/כְרָעָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct | Leviticus 1:9 | 1 |
| כְרָעַ֖יִם | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute | Amos 3:12 | 1 |
| כְרָעַ֨יִם֙ | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Absolute | Leviticus 11:21 | 1 |
| כְּרָעָ֑י/ו | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct | Leviticus 4:11 | 1 |
| כְּרָעָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct | Exodus 12:9 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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