# H3409 יָרֵךְ

יָרֵךְ (yârêk), Strong’s H3409: the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side KJV: [idiom] body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.. Occurs…

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*yârêk* — the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side

KJV: [idiom] body, loins, shaft, side, thigh.

Occurs 34 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָרֵךְ n.f. thigh, loin, side, base

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 24:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=2) — Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my…
- [Genesis 24:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=9) — The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
- [Genesis 32:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=26) — When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s…
- [Genesis 32:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=32) — The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
- [Genesis 32:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=33) — Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day…
- [Genesis 46:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/46?v=26) — All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all…
- [Genesis 47:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/47?v=29) — The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in…
- [Exodus 1:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=5) — All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
- [Exodus 25:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=31) — “You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its…
- [Exodus 28:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=42) — You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.