שִׁכְמָהshikmâh

shoulder

Pronunciation: shik-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7929

Meanings

1. (sometimes including back of neck; כתף = shoulder-blade)

a. to serve him, one shoulder (Genesis 49:15; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 24:15)

2. in general back (1 Samuel 10:9; Psalms 21:13; Psalms 18:41)

Same root

שְׁכֶםshᵉkem · H7926the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of ahill

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Job 31:22 then let my shoulder be wrenched out of place! Let my arm be torn from its socket!

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).