Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
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Shoulders
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Luke 15:5
And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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כָּתֵף
kâthêph · kaw-thafe'
13 times translated as this KJV form67 total Strong's occurrences
the shoulder (proper, i.e. upper end of the arm; as being the spot where the garments hang); figuratively, side-piece or lateral projection of anything
Strong's KJV usage: arm, corner, shoulder(-piece), side, undersetter.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 28:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 12:6
Open full H3802 profile →שְׁכֶם
shᵉkem · shek-em'
5 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of a hill
Strong's KJV usage: back, × consent, portion, shoulder.
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Strong's first: Genesis 9:23Strong's last: Isaiah 14:25
Open full H7926 profile →ὦμος
ōmos · o'-mos
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
the shoulder (as that on which burdens are borne)
Strong's KJV usage: :--shoulder.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:4Strong's last: Luke 15:5
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H3802
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
H7926
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
H3802
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
H3802
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
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shoulder
SHOULDER, noun
1. The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scapula or shoulder blades, which extend from the basis of the neck in a horizontal direction.
2. The upper joint of the fore leg of an animal cut for th emarket; as a shoulder of mutton.
3. Shoulders, in the plural, the upper part of the back.
Adown her shoulders fell her length of hair. Dryden.
4. Figuratively, support; sustaining power; or that which elevates and sustains.
For on thy shoulders do I build my seat. Shak.
5. Among artificers, something like the human shoulder; a horizontal or rectangular projection from the body of a thing.
SHOULDER, verb transitive
1. To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence.
Around her numberless the rabble flow'd,
Should'ring each other, crowding for a view. Rowe.
As they the earth would shoulder from her seat. Spenser.
2. To take upon the shoulder; as, to shoulder a basket.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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