Joint
אַצִּילStrong’s H0679atstsil (ats-tsil)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atstsil is the Hebrew word usually translated “joints of” and “joint”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.”
Meaning
- Joining, joint (such as elbow etc)
How it's translated
- joints of 2
- a joint 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
- Ezekiel 41:8I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
Hebrew dictionary
אַצִּיל atstsil · joint
joining, joint (such as elbow etc)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “joint” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JOINT, noun
[Latin junctura. See Join.]
- The joining of two or more things.
- In anatomy, the joining of two or more bones; an articulation; as the elbow, the knee, or the knuckle.
- A knot; the union of two parts of a plant; or the space between two joints; an internode; as the joint of a cane, or of a stalk of maiz.
- A hinge; a juncture of parts which admits of motion.
All definitions and other forms of “joint”
- The place where two pieces of timber are united.
- In joinery, straight lines are called a joint when two pieces of wood are planed.
- One of the limbs of an animal cut up by the butcher.
JOINT, adjective
Shared by two or more; as joint property.
- United in the same profession; having an interest in the same thing; as a joint-heir or heiress.
- United; combined; acting in concert; as a joint force; joint efforts; joint vigor.
JOINT, verb transitive
To form with joints or articulations; used mostly in the participle; as the fingers are jointed; a cane has a jointed stalk.
- To form many parts into one; as jointed wood.
- To cut or divide into joints or quarters.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.