Occurrences
Berek occurs 25 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (3), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (3), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Job (2), Psalms (1), Isaiah (3), Ezekiel (3), Daniel (1), Nahum (1)
- Genesis 30:3 — And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees (בִּרְכַּ֔י), that I may also have children by her.
- Genesis 48:12 — And Joseph brought them out from between his knees (בִּרְכָּ֑יו), and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
- Genesis 50:23 — And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees (בִּרְכֵּ֥י).
- Deuteronomy 28:35 — The LORD shall smite thee in the knees (הַבִּרְכַּ֙יִם֙), and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
- Judges 7:5 — So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees (בִּרְכָּ֖יו) to drink.
- Judges 7:6 — And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees (בִּרְכֵיהֶ֖ם) to drink water.
- Judges 16:19 — And she made him sleep upon her knees (בִּרְכֶּ֔יהָ); and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
- 1 Kings 8:54 — And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees (בִּרְכָּ֔יו) with his hands spread up to heaven.
- 1 Kings 18:42 — So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees (בִּרְכָּֽיו),
- 1 Kings 19:18 — Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees (הַבִּרְכַּ֗יִם) which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
- 2 Kings 1:13 — And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees (בִּרְכָּ֣יו) before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
- 2 Kings 4:20 — And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees (בִּרְכֶּ֛יהָ) till noon, and then died.
- 2 Chronicles 6:13 — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees (בִּרְכָּיו֙) before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
- Ezra 9:5 — And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees (בִּרְכַּ֔י), and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
- Job 3:12 — Why did the knees (בִרְכָּ֑יִם) prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- Job 4:4 — Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees (וּבִרְכַּ֖יִם).
- Psalms 109:24 — My knees (בִּ֭רְכַּי) are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
- Isaiah 35:3 — Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees (וּבִרְכַּ֥יִם).
- Isaiah 45:23 — I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee (בֶּ֔רֶךְ) shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
- Isaiah 66:12 — For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees (בִּרְכַּ֖יִם).
- Ezekiel 7:17 — All hands shall be feeble, and all knees (בִּרְכַּ֖יִם) shall be weak as water.
- Ezekiel 21:7 — And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees (בִּרְכַּ֙יִם֙) shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 47:4 — Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees (בִּרְכָּ֑יִם). Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
- Daniel 10:10 — And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees (בִּרְכַּ֖י) and upon the palms of my hands.
- Nahum 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees (בִּרְכַּ֗יִם) smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.