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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

2. (n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

3. (n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

4. (v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

5. (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

6. (v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

7. (n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

8. (interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

9. (n.) Alt. of Hipps

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
HIP

(shoq, "leg," "limb," "hip," "shoulder"): Samson smote the Philistines "hip and thigh" (Hebrew "leg upon thigh"), which was indicative of "a great slaughter" (Judges 15:8), the bodies being hewed in pieces with such violence that they lay in bloody confusion, their limbs piled up on one another in great heaps.

See also SINEW.

Greek
4628. skelos -- the leg (from the hip down)
... the leg (from the hip down). Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: skelos
Phonetic Spelling: (skel'-os) Short Definition: the leg Definition: the leg ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4628.htm - 6k

3751. osphus -- the loin
... 3751 -- properly, the hip (reproductive area); used figuratively in 1 Pet 1:13 of
the "reproductive" (creative) capacity of the (cf. Ro 12:1-3). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3751.htm - 7k

2461. hippikos -- cavalry
... 2460, 2461. hippikos. 2462 . cavalry. Transliteration: hippikos Phonetic
Spelling: (hip-pee-kon') Short Definition: horsemen. Word ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2461.htm - 6k

2462. hippos -- a horse
... hippos. 2463 . a horse. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: hippos
Phonetic Spelling: (hip'-pos) Short Definition: a horse Definition: a horse. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2462.htm - 6k

2460. hippeus -- a horseman
... a horseman. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: hippeus Phonetic Spelling:
(hip-yooce') Short Definition: a mounted soldier Definition: a horse ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2460.htm - 6k

Strong's Hebrew
4667. miphsaah -- hip or buttock
... 4666, 4667. miphsaah. 4668 . hip or buttock. Transliteration: miphsaah
Phonetic Spelling: (mif-saw-aw') Short Definition: hips. ...
/hebrew/4667.htm - 6k

5384. nasheh -- a vein (or nerve) in the thigh
... 5383, 5384. nasheh. 5385 . a vein (or nerve) in the thigh. Transliteration:
nasheh Phonetic Spelling: (naw-sheh') Short Definition: hip. ...
/hebrew/5384.htm - 6k

7785. shoq -- a leg
... hip, leg, shoulder, thigh. From shuwq; the (lower) leg (as a runner) -- hip, leg,
shoulder, thigh. see HEBREW shuwq. 7784, 7785. shoq. 7786 . Strong's Numbers
/hebrew/7785.htm - 6k

2783. charats -- loin
... 2782, 2783. charats. 2784 . loin. Transliteration: charats Phonetic Spelling:
(khar-ats') Short Definition: hip. Word Origin (Aramaic ...
/hebrew/2783.htm - 6k

6654. tsad -- a side
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a side NASB Word Usage arms (1), beside*
(4), hip (1), side (17), side on sides (1), side to the other (1), sides (7 ...
/hebrew/6654.htm - 6k

Library

Meeting a Brother who had Been Wronged
... When he saw that he did not win against Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip,
and the socket of Jacob's hip was strained, as he wrestled with him. ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/meeting a brother who had.htm

How Rebekah Became the Wife of Isaac
... had blessed him in every way, Abraham said to the eldest of his household servants,
who had charge of all his affairs, "Put your hand under my hip, while I ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/how rebekah became the wife.htm

Answers to Prayer
... Addie S. Jordan. In April, 1876, Mrs. Jordan fell and badly fractured
her hip. She was then seventy-seven years old. On account ...
//christianbookshelf.org/various/the wonders of prayer/answers to prayer.htm

Lives of Faith and Trust
... She simply told me that some years ago she was run over and her hip badly injured.
I asked her if she could trust the Lord for healing. ... HIP DISEASE CURED. ...
/.../various/the wonders of prayer/lives of faith and trust.htm

The High Woods
... till I picked up a guide"will he let me say a friend?"an Aberdeenshire Scot, who
hurried out fresh from his bath, his trusty cutlass on his hip, and in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter vii the high woods.htm

The Flight into Egypt and St. John the Baptist in the Desert
... She had a roll of wool fastened at her right hip and she held in her hands two needles
(of bone, I think) with little hooks. One must be half a yard long. ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xvi the flight into egypt.htm

Through the Book to God.
... handed. Up and down, left and right, hip and thigh he smote with such terrific
earnestness and drive that the enemy turned and fled. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/through the book to god.htm

Use what You Have.
... into the ground for a good hold, and mutters to himself, "I guess they are about
four hundred short." And he smites, left and right, up and down, hip and thigh ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/use what you have.htm

The Oratorio of victory.
... The smoke of the battle has tanned their faces. They have struggled with the enemy
at close range, hip and thigh, nip and tuck, close parry and hard thrust. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/the oratorio of victory.htm

Chapter xxxii
... the others have crossed, that could hardly be called exposing them to undue danger
inasmuch as the Jabbok is perhaps thirty feet wide and at most about hip-deep ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xxxii.htm

Thesaurus
Hip (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of
one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle. ...
/h/hip.htm - 10k

Sinew (2 Occurrences)
... "Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the
hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's ...
/s/sinew.htm - 8k

Thigh (38 Occurrences)
... Version has "thigh" for shoq in Isaiah 47:2 (the Revised Version (British and American)
"leg")): The portion of the leg from the knee to the hip, against which ...
/t/thigh.htm - 22k

Hollow (35 Occurrences)
... hol'-o (kaph, nabhabh): "Hollow" is the translation of kaph, "hollow" (Genesis
32:25, 32, "the hollow of his thigh," the hip-pan or socket, over the sciatic ...
/h/hollow.htm - 20k

Thigh-vein (1 Occurrence)
... Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which
is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow ...
/t/thigh-vein.htm - 6k

Tendon (1 Occurrence)
... Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which
is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow ...
/t/tendon.htm - 6k

Etam (5 Occurrences)
... (3) The rock of Etam, where Samson took up his dwelling after smiting the Philistines
"hip and thigh with a great slaughter" (Judges 15:8, 11), was in Judah ...
/e/etam.htm - 11k

Attached (31 Occurrences)
... Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which
is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow ...
/a/attached.htm - 15k

Socket (5 Occurrences)
... Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which
is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow ...
/s/socket.htm - 9k

Hippopotamus
... A smaller species (H. Liberiencis) inhabits Western Africa. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. HIPPOPOTAMUS. hip-o-pot'-a-mus (Job 41:1 margin). See BEHEMOTH. ...
/h/hippopotamus.htm - 7k

Resources
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Concordance
Hip (8 Occurrences)

Genesis 32:25
When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
(See NIV)

Genesis 32:31
And as he passed over Peniel, the sun rose upon him; and he limped upon his hip.
(DBY NIV)

Genesis 32:32
Therefore the children of Israel don't eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 32:27
And he said to them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Put every man his sword upon his hip; go and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbour.
(DBY)

Judges 15:8
He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Chronicles 19:4
So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.
(Root in JPS DBY NAS RSV)

Isaiah 66:12
For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.
(See NAS RSV)

Daniel 5:6
Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Hip

Related Terms

Sinew (2 Occurrences)

Thigh (38 Occurrences)

Hollow (35 Occurrences)

Thigh-vein (1 Occurrence)

Tendon (1 Occurrence)

Etam (5 Occurrences)

Attached (31 Occurrences)

Socket (5 Occurrences)

Hippopotamus

Israel (27466 Occurrences)

Touched (96 Occurrences)

Jacob's (34 Occurrences)

Hinnom (11 Occurrences)

Viciously (1 Occurrence)

Void (64 Occurrences)

Loin (2 Occurrences)

Flank (3 Occurrences)

Ruthlessly (8 Occurrences)

Bath (13 Occurrences)

Cleft (15 Occurrences)

Hyprocrite

Hypocrisy (11 Occurrences)

Samson (37 Occurrences)

Smiting (76 Occurrences)

Slaughtered (72 Occurrences)

Cave (40 Occurrences)

Hop (1 Occurrence)

Smiteth (156 Occurrences)

Slaughter (121 Occurrences)

Children

Ephesians (4 Occurrences)

Dwelleth (142 Occurrences)

Raiment (75 Occurrences)

Stayed (169 Occurrences)

Rock (176 Occurrences)

Smote (281 Occurrences)

Essenes

Epistle (13 Occurrences)

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