Muscle
שָׁרִירStrong’s H8306sharir (sha-rir)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sharir is the Hebrew word usually translated “muscles of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.”
Meaning
- Sinew, muscle
How it's translated
- in muscles of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁרִיר sharir · muscle
sinew, muscle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “muscle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUS'CLE, noun
[Latin musculus, a muscle and a little mouse.]
- In anatomy, the muscles are the organs of motion, consisting of fibers or bundles of fibers inclosed in a thin cellular membrane.
- A bivalvular shell fish of the genus Mytilus; sometimes written mussel.
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.