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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" ( Judges 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 .

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Hip'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/h/hip.html. 1915.

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