Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5384 - נָשֶׁה nasheh (a vein (or nerve) in the thigh)

Original Word:	נָשֶׁה
Transliteration:	nasheh
Definition:	a vein (or nerve) in the thigh
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(naw-sheh')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

which shrank

From nashah, in the sense of failure; rheumatic or crippled (from the incident to Jacob) -- which shrank.

see HEBREW nashah

Englishman's Concordance

1) vein, nerve, tendon (in the thigh)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5382, in the sense of failure
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1429

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נָשֶׁהnoun [masculine]a vein (or nerve) in the thigh (etymology dubious; on formative compare Lag^{BN 50}; Arabic

apparently the portion of the principal vein of the leg which is in the thigh, vulgar sciatic vein, or (modern) sciatic nerve and even sciatica, Lane³⁰³³); — only גִּיד הַנָּשֶׁה Gen Genesis 32:33a the sinew of the thigh-vein (or thigh-nerve, אֲשֶׁר עַלכַּֿף הַיָּרֵךְ), compare v33b. — On sacredness of thigh, compare RS^{Sem i. 360; 2nd ed. 380} We^Heid (2), 168.

נָשִׁים see אִשָּׁה above

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5384. נָשֶׁה (nasheh) — 2 Occurrences

Genesis 32:32
HEB:אֶת־ גִּ֣יד הַנָּשֶׁ֗ה אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־
NAS: the sinew of the hip which
KJV: not [of] the sinew which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow
INT: of Israel the sinew of the hip which is on

Genesis 32:32
HEB:יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּגִ֖יד הַנָּשֶֽׁה׃
NAS: thigh in the sinew of the hip.
KJV: thigh in the sinew that shrank.
INT: of Jacob's the sinew of the hip

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