Strong’s G4628 · Greek
σκέλος
skélos · skel'-os
Origin apparently from σκέλλω (to parch;
Meaning through the idea of leanness); the leg (as lank)
In the King James Version leg.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- John 19:31The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
- John 19:32Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
- John 19:33But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.