Aramaic word · H755

אַרְכֻבָּה

ve'arkhubateh

knee

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

knee

Aramaic of av.rekh (אַבְרֵךְ "to bow" H0086)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Daniel · 1

  1. Daniel 5:6 וְאַ֨רְכֻבָּתֵ֔הּ and knees his

    his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

    Here: 'And his knees.' The word occurs only here in Biblical Aramaic. Next, the king's legs go too.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.