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title: כְּרָעַיִם — leg · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּרָעַיִם (3767), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: leg. BDB 1906: leg. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּרָעַיִם

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«כְּרָעַיִם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **leg** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 3767 · **BDB:** כֶּ֫רַע

### Glosses

legs (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

leg [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3767/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

leg [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3767/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] leg, (NH כֶּרַע, Aramaic כַּרְעָא, ܟܰܪܥܳܐ, Arabic كُراَع );—only du. כְּרָעַיִם Lv 11:21 + 3 times; כְּרָעָ֑יִם Lv 9:14; sf. כְּרָעָיו Ex 12:9 + 3 times;—two (bending) legs, of animals in ritual phrase of P, רֹאשׁוֹ עַל־כְּרָעָיו Ex 12:9 his head with his legs, Lv 4:11; (ה)קרב(ו) ו(ה)כרע(יו) (his) inwards and (his) legs Ex 29:17 Lv 1:9, 13; 8:21; 9:14; Am 3:12 (of legs of lamb in mouth of lion); of the long bending hinder legs of the Saltatorial Orthoptera (v. Tristr Nat. Hist. Bib. 309; Dr Joel 84) Lv 11:21 אשׁר לוֹ כְרָעַיִם מִמַּעַל לְרַגְלָיו לְנַתֵּר בָּהֵן עַל הָאָרֶץ which have bending legs above their feet, etc.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּרָעַיִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3767/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 9:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.14/)

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וַיִּרְחַ֥ץ אֶת־הַקֶּ֖רֶב וְאֶת־הַכְּרָעָ֑יִם וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר עַל־הָעֹלָ֖ה הַמִּזְבֵּֽחָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.washed (et) the entrails and (et) the legs and he.made.\[them\].smoke on the.burnt offering to the altar

*JPS 1917:* And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar.

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[Leviticus 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.4.11/)

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וְאֶת־ע֤וֹר הַפָּר֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־בְּשָׂר֔וֹ עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ וְעַל־כְּרָעָ֑יו וְקִרְבּ֖וֹ וּפִרְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.hide of the.bull and (et) all flesh its with head its and with legs its and entrails its and dung its

*JPS 1917:* But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,

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