גִּיד
gid · sinew
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1517 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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gid (גִּיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sinew”.
Tendon.
How to say it
gid
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The tough fibers joining muscles to bones.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sinews ×4
- tendon ×2
- sinew ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 32:32
That is why, to this day, the sons of Israel do not eat the tendon that is on the socket of the hip, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip, on the tendon.
- Job 10:11
With skin and flesh you clothed me, and with bones and sinews you wove me together.
- Job 40:17
It bends its tail like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are knit together.
- Isaiah 48:4
Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your forehead bronze,
- Ezekiel 37:6
And I will put sinews on you, and I will bring up flesh on you, and I will cover you with skin, and I will put spirit in you, and you will live; and you will know that I am YHWH.’”
- Ezekiel 37:8
And I looked, and look, on them were sinews, and flesh had come up, and skin covered them from above; but spirit there was none in them.
And 1 more times.