Leg <1,,4628, skelos>
"the leg from the hip downwards," is used only of the breaking of the "legs" of the crucified malefactors, to hasten their death, Joh 1:19-33 (a customary act, not carried out in the case of Christ, in fullfillment of Exo 12:46, Num 9:12). The practice was known as skelokopia (from kopto, "to stike"), or, in Latin, crurifragium (from crus, "a leg," and frango, "to break").
