(Heb. and Chald. , be’rek; Gr. ; Psa 109:24; in Dan 5:6, the Chald. term is , arkcubah’). The Hebrew word, as a verb, signifies to bend the knee (2Ch 6:13), also to bless, to pronounce or give a blessing, because the person blessed kneels. SEE BLESSING. In this sense it refers to the benediction of dying parents (Gen 27:4; Gen 27:7; Gen 27:10; Gen 27:19), of the priest to the people (Lev 9:22-23), of a prophet (Num 24:1; Deu 33:1). It also signifies to salute, which is connected with blessing (2Ki 4:29). In relation to God, to praise, to thank him (Deu 8:10; Psa 16:7).<\/p>\n
The expression is also, in another form, used in reference to camels, as to make them bend the knee in order to take rest: “And he made his camels to kneel down without the city” (Gen 24:11). SEE CAMEL.<\/p>\n
To bow the knee is to perform an act of worship (1Ki 19:18), and in this sense it is used in the Heb. in Isa 66:3; “He that worships idols” is, literally, ” He that bows the knee” to them. SEE WORSHIP. That kneeling was the posture of prayer we learn from 2Ch 6:13; Dan 6:10; Luk 22:41; Act 7:60; Ephesians 3,14. SEE PRAYER.<\/p>\n
Knees are sometimes put symbolically for persons, as in Job 4:4; Heb 12:12 (Wemyss). SEE KNEEL.<\/p>\n
For the peculiar term in Gen 41:43 (see Reineccius, De nomine , W Veissenf. 1726), see ABRECI.<\/p>\n
“a knee” (Latin, genu), is used (a) metaphorically in Heb 12:12<\/span>, where the duty enjoined is that of “courageous self-recovery in God’s strength;” (b) literally, of the attitude of a suppliant, Luk 5:8<\/span>; Eph 3:14<\/span>; of veneration, Rom 11:4<\/span>; Rom 14:11<\/span>; Phi 2:10<\/span>; in mockery, Mar 15:19<\/span>. See KNEEL. <\/p>\n Isa 45:23 (a) A type of submission to CHRIST in the day of His power. (See also Php 2:10).<\/p>\n Eze 47:4 (b) The Holy Spirit affects our life of devotion.<\/p>\n Heb 12:12 (b) This is a picture of the weak, depressed and distressed Christian.<\/p>\n Knee (Heb. and Chald. , be’rek; Gr. ; Psa 109:24; in Dan 5:6, the Chald. term is , arkcubah’). The Hebrew word, as a verb, signifies to bend the knee (2Ch 6:13), also to bless, to pronounce or give a blessing, because the person blessed kneels. SEE BLESSING. In this sense it refers to the … Continue reading “Knee”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Knee<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Wilson’s Dictionary of Bible Types<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"