International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hip

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Hip


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(שׁוק, shōḳ, “leg,” “limb,” “hip,” “shoulder”): Samson smote the Philistines “hip and thigh” (Hebrew “leg upon thigh”), which was indicative of “a great slaughter” (), 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.