שׁוֹק
shoq
leg
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word שׁוֹק (shoq) with Strong's number H7785 refers to a 'leg'. This simple definition captures the core meaning of the word, which appears 19 times in the Bible. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that the concept of the leg played an important role in the lives of the ancient Israelites, possibly in contexts such as movement, strength, injury, or physical description. This word's significance may lie in the common human experience of having legs and using them for daily activities, which underscores its fundamental nature.
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Occurrences in Scripture
19 total occurrences across the text
He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Proverbs 26:7Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Song of Solomon 5:15His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
Exodus 29:22Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
Exodus 29:27You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.
Leviticus 7:32The right thigh you shall give to the priest for a heave offering out of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
Leviticus 7:33He among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion.
Leviticus 7:34For the waved breast and the heaved thigh I have taken from the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel.’ ”
Leviticus 8:25He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh;
Leviticus 8:26and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat and on the right thigh.
Leviticus 9:21Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh for a wave offering before Yahweh, as Moses commanded.
Leviticus 10:14The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 10:15The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”
Numbers 6:20and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.
Numbers 18:18Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
Deuteronomy 28:35Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
Judges 15:8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.
1 Samuel 9:24The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have invited the people.’ ” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.