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hebrew #86 - אַבְרֵךְ abrek (to kneel)


Original Word:אַבְרֵךְ
Transliteration: abrek
Definition:to kneel
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(ab-rake')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bow the knee

Probably an Egyptian word meaning kneel -- bow the knee.


Englishman's Concordance

1) (meaning dubious) - a shout made to announce Joseph’s chariot
1a) command
1b) bow
Part of Speech: exclamation
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: probably an Egyptian word meaning kneel
Same Word by TWOT Number: 14

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אַבְרֵךְ proclaimed before Joseph Genesis 41:43 (meaning dubious; many Egyptian derivatives proposed; e.g. a-bor-k, Coptic=prostrate thyself! SpiegelbRandglossen 14 ff. explained as Egyptian ±brk=give attention! BenfeyVerh. d. äg. Spr. z. Semitic 302 f; ¹prek,=head bowed! ChabasRA 1, — but ¹=ע see also WiedemannAltäg. Wörter 1883, 8; apreχ-u, head of the wise, HarkavyBerl. äg. Zeltschr. 1869; (but Jeremiah 46:15 many MSS. ᵐ5 Aq Symm Theod ᵑ9 many moderns read אַבִּירֶ֑ךָthy bull, i.e. Apis). — אַבִרֵךְ: SpiegelbergRandglossen 14ff. explains as Egyptian °brk=give attention!åb-rek, rejoice thou! CookSpeaker's Comm. Gn. on the passage and p. 482; Lepage RenoufPSBA.nov.1888, 5 fåb(u)-rek, thy command is our desire, i.e. we are at thy service; SayRel. Babylonian 183 Assyrian abrikku=Akkadian abrik, vizier (unpublished tablet), see already DlW; L 134 c., 1. 11. 12 who compare Assyrian abarakku=title, perhaps grand vizier; against Dl, see COT & NöZMG 1886, 734).

אַבְרָם, אַבְשַׁי see אֲבִירָם, אֲבִישַׁי below II. אבה.

אַבְשָׁלוֺם, אַבְשָׁלֹם see אֲבִישָׁלוֺם below II. אבה.

אגא (compare Arabic , flee Frey). **Authority for Arabic verb flee is slender, but word occurs as proper name, of a mountain, and elsewhere (GFM, privately).


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 86. אַבְרֵך (abrek) — 1 Occurrence

Genesis 41:43
HEB:וַיִּקְרְא֥וּ לְפָנָ֖יו אַבְרֵ֑ךְ וְנָת֣וֹן אֹת֔וֹ
NAS: before him, Bow the knee! And he set
KJV: before him, Bow the knee: and he made
INT: proclaimed before Bow set over

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