Hip
Hip
(, shok, usually shoulder) occurs in the A.V. only in the phrase hip and thigh (lit. leg upon thigh), in the account of Samson’s slaughter of the Philistines (Jdg 15:8); evidently a proverbial phrase, i.e. he cut them in pieces so that their limbs, their legs and their thighs, were scattered one upon another, q. d. he totally destroyed them (Gesenius). SEE SAMSON.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Hip (2)
in architecture, is the external angle formed by the meeting of the sloping sides of a roof which have their wall-plates running in different directions: thus, when a roof has the end sloped back, instead of finishing with a gable, the pieces of timber in these angles are called hip-rafters, and the tiles with which they are covered are called hip-tiles. The internal angles formed by the meeting of the sides are termed valleys, whether the latter be horizontal or sloping, and the piece of timber that supports a sloping valley is termed the valley rafter. Such a roof is called a hip roof.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Hip
(, shok, leg, limb, hip, shoulder): Samson smote the Philistines hip and thigh (Hebrew leg upon thigh), which was indicative of a great slaughter (Jdg 15:8), the bodies being hewed in pieces with such violence that they lay in bloody confusion, their limbs piled up on one another in great heaps. See also SINEW.