Joint
קְטַרStrong’s H7001qetar (qe-tar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetar is the Aramaic word usually translated “joints of” and “knots”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.”
Meaning
- Knot, joint, problemjoints (of the hip) · difficulties, doubts (fig)
How it's translated
- and joints of 1
- knots 1
- and knots 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:12In contextForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
- Daniel 5:16In contextAnd I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Aramaic dictionary
קְטַר qetar · joint
1) knot, joint, problem 1a) joints (of the hip) 1b) difficulties, doubts (fig)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.