כֶּרַע (keraʿ) is a Hebrew noun meaning leg. It appears 9 times in 3 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3767).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1044a)

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

כֶּ֫רַע noun, feminine: leg

Strong's H3767 כָּרָע: the leg (from the knee to the ankle) of men or locusts (only in the dual)
KJV:leg.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1044: כָּרַע kāraʿ — bow down; bow, bow down over; bow in grief, bow down in death; bend, sink, prostrate; bring down, cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, smite down, subdue

• כָּרַע kāraʿ — bow down

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