abrek: to kneel Original Word: אַבְרֵך Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: abrek Phonetic Spelling: (ab-rake') Short Definition: kneel
Word Origin probably of foreign origin Definition to kneel NASB Word Usage bow the knee (1). 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 אַבִּירֶ֑ךָ thy 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 f åb(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 Babylonian 183 Assyrian abrikku = Akkadian abrik, vizier (unpublished tablet), see already DlW; L 134 c., 1. 11. 12 who compare Assyrian abarakku = title, perhaps grand vizier; against Dl, see COT & NöZMG 1886, 734).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).
bow the knee Probably an Egyptian word meaning kneel -- bow the knee.
’ê·ḇer — 2 Occ. hā·’ê·ḇer — 1 Occ. bə·’eḇ·rā·ṯōw — 1 Occ. bî·raq·raq — 1 Occ. ’eḇ·rāh — 1 Occ. ’eḇ·rā·ṯōw — 1 Occ. ’aḇ·rā·hām — 139 Occ. lə·’aḇ·rā·hām — 27 Occ. mê·’aḇ·rā·hām — 1 Occ. wə·’aḇ·rā·hām — 8 Occ. ’aḇ·rām — 50 Occ. bə·’aḇ·rām — 1 Occ. lə·’aḇ·rām — 6 Occ. ū·lə·’aḇ·rām — 1 Occ. wə·’aḇ·rām — 3 Occ. bə·’ō·ḇōṯ — 2 Occ. mê·’ō·ḇōṯ — 2 Occ. ’ā·ḡê — 1 Occ. ’ă·ḡaḡ — 7 Occ. mê·’ă·ḡaḡ — 1 Occ.
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