STRONGS NUMBER H3767


Word Summary
kera: a leg
Original Word: כָּרָע
Transliteration: kera
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-raw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a leg
Meaning: the leg, of men, locusts
Strong's Concordance
leg

From kara'; the leg (from the knee to the ankle) of men or locusts (only in the dual) -- leg.

see HEBREW kara'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3767. kera

[כֶּ֫רַע‎] noun [feminine] leg, (Late Hebrew כֶּרַע‎, Aramaic כַּרְעָא‎, — only dual feminine כְּרָעַיִםLeviticus 11:21 3t.; כְּרָעָ֑יִם9:14; sf כְּרָעָיוExodus 12:9 3t.; — two (bending) legs, of animals in ritual phrase of P, עַלכְּֿרָעָיו ראֹשׁוֺ12:9 his head with his legs, Leviticus 4:11; (יוׅ ו(ה)כרע (ה)קרב(ו)‎ (his) inwards and (his) legs Exodus 29:17; Leviticus 1:9, 13; 8:21; 9:14; Amos 3:12 (of legs of lamb in mouth of lion); of the long bending hinder legs of the Saltatorial Orthoptera (see TristrNat. Hist. Bib. 309; DrJoel 84) Leviticus 11:21 הָאָרֶץ עַל בָּהֵן לְנַתֵּר לְרַגְלָיו מִמַּעַל כְרָעַיִם לוֺ אשׁר‎ which have bending legs above their feet, etc.