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Song of Solomon 5:15
“His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שׁוֹקshôwq · shoke
H7785 · Hebrew
H7785 · Hebrew
- Definition
- the (lower) leg (as a runner)
- Derivation
- from H7783 (שׁוּק);
- KJV renderings
- hip, leg, shoulder, thigh.
- Grammar
- שׁוֹקָי — common noun, feminine, dual, construct
- ו֙ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 19 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 29:22Exodus 29:27Leviticus 7:32Leviticus 7:33Leviticus 7:34
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שׁוֹק here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.