Joint
דֶּ֫בֶקStrong’s H1694deveq (de-veq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Deveq is the Hebrew word usually translated “joints” and “soldering”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.”
Meaning
- Joints, soldering, joining, appendagejoining, soldering, riveting · appendage, open joints of a breastplate
How it's translated
- the joints 2
- of the soldering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 18:33And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
- Isaiah 41:7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
Hebrew dictionary
דֶּ֫בֶק deveq · joint
1) joints, soldering, joining, appendage 1a) joining, soldering, riveting 1b) appendage, open joints of a breastplate
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.