Sinew
גִּידStrong’s H1517gid
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gid is the Hebrew word usually translated “sinew of”, “sinews” and “sinews of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.”
Meaning
- Sinew
How it's translated
- sinew of 2
- sinews 2
- and sinews 1
- sinews of 1
- and a sinew of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 10:11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
- Job 40:17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
- Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- Ezekiel 37:6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 37:8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
Hebrew dictionary
גִּיד gid · sinew
sinew
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sinew” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIN'EW, noun
- In anatomy, a tendon; that which unites a muscle to a bone.
- In the plural, strength; or rather that which supplies strength.
- Muscle; nerve.
All definitions and other forms of “sinew”
SIN'EW, verb intransitive
To knit as by sinews.
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.