Strong’s H1517 · Hebrew
גִּיד
gîyd · gheed
Origin probably from גּוּד (H1464);
Meaning a thong (as compressing); by analogy, a tendon
In the King James Version sinew.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 32:32Therefore 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.
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.