KNEE.

KNEE. Besides the literal use of the word, it is used figuratively. Taking children on the knees is adopting them. Gen 30:3; Jer 50:23. The knees were the seat of strength. Deut 28:35; Job 4:4; Isa 35:3; Nah 2:10; Heb 12:12. The head was put between the knees in abject supplication. 1 Kgs 18:42. Bending the knee is the simplest and most striking way of making or declaring one's self inferior to another, and thus it came to be used in prayer, worship, or humiliation. 2 Kgs 1:13; Isa 45:23; Dan 6:10-11; Luke 22:41; Rom 11:4; Eph 3:14; Phil 2:10; Acts 9:40; Acts 20:36. The common Hebrew word for blessing is a form of the word translated "knee," and it is used for invoking God to bless, Gen 28:6; Josh 24:10; for invoking God for his blessing, Gen 12:3; Matt 18:18; for celebrating, praising, and adoring God, 2 Chr 6:13; Dan 6:11; for invoking blessings on others in the name of God. Ps 129:8; Gen 48:9; for God blessing his creatures. Gen 1:22; for emphatic greetings among men. 1 Sam 15:13:for invoking evil. 1 Kgs 21:10; Job 31:30.

KNEE. Besides the literal use of the word, it is used figuratively. Taking children on the knees is adopting them. Gen 30:3; Jer 50:23. The knees were the seat of strength. Deut 28:35; Job 4:4; Isa 35:3; Nah 2:10; Heb 12:12. The head was put between the knees in abject supplication. 1 Kgs 18:42. Bending the knee is the simplest and most striking way of making or declaring one's self inferior to another, and thus it came to be used in prayer, worship, or humiliation. 2 Kgs 1:13; Isa 45:23; Dan 6:10-11; Luke 22:41; Rom 11:4; Eph 3:14; Phil 2:10; Acts 9:40; Acts 20:36. The common Hebrew word for blessing is a form of the word translated "knee," and it is used for invoking God to bless, Gen 28:6; Josh 24:10; for invoking God for his blessing, Gen 12:3; Matt 18:18; for celebrating, praising, and adoring God, 2 Chr 6:13; Dan 6:11; for invoking blessings on others in the name of God. Ps 129:8; Gen 48:9; for God blessing his creatures. Gen 1:22; for emphatic greetings among men. 1 Sam 15:13:for invoking evil. 1 Kgs 21:10; Job 31:30.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.

2. The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.

3. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man.

4. A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

5. A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy. Give them title, knee, and approbation. Shak. Knee breeches. See under Breeches. -- Knee holly, Knee holm (Bot.), butcher's broom. -- Knee jerk (Physiol.) a jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; one of the so-called tendon reflexes. -- Knee joint. See in the Vocabulary. -- Knee timber, timber with knees or angles in it. -- Knee tribute, or Knee worship, tribute paid by kneeling; worship by genuflection. [Obs.] "Knee tribute yet unpaid." Milton.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To supplicate by kneeling. [Obs.] Fall down, and knee The way into his mercy. Shak