Topic
Hip
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Judges 15:8ISBE
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 1 references
(shoq, "leg," "limb," "hip," "shoulder"): Samson smote the Philistines "hip and thigh" (Hebrew "leg upon thigh"), which was indicative of "a great slaughter" (Jud 15:8), 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.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.