shikh.mah denotes the shoulder in Job's imprecation that it fall away and the arm break.

The sole attested use names the shoulder as the body part invoked in Job's imprecation: the APB renders the clause as, "Let my shoulder fall from its shoulder and my arm break from its branch."

1. Shoulder in a bodily imprecation · dominant

   In Job 31:22, the construct singular noun occurs in the imprecation concerning bodily collapse; the APB renders the clause, "Let my shoulder fall from its shoulder and my arm break from its branch."

   Job 31:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Job 31:22, the APB presents the term within the phrase "my shoulder fall from its shoulder." Its exact correspondence to either occurrence in that phrase cannot be isolated.