יָרֵךְyârêk

Meanings

Same root

• יְרֵכָהyᵉrêkâh · H3411properly, the flank; but used only figuratively, the rear or recess

Where it appears

Appears 34 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 24:2 One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, “Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.
• Genesis 24:9 So the servant took an oath by putting his hand under the thigh of his master, Abraham. He swore to follow Abraham’s instructions.
• Genesis 32:25 When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob’s hip and wrenched it out of its socket.
• Genesis 32:31 The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of the injury to his hip.
• Genesis 32:32 (Even today the people of Israel don’t eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.)
• Genesis 46:26 The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants who went with him to Egypt, not counting his sons’ wives, was sixty-six.