nod · skin, wineskin

What it means

nod (נֹאד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “skin, wineskin”.

Skin bag: leather sewn together to hold wine, water or milk.

How to say it

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

1. Sewn leather for holding wine, water or milk.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• skin ×3
• wineskins ×2
• like a wineskin ×1

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×2

• Joshua 9:4

  and they too acted with cunning: they went and posed as envoys, and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins worn-out, torn, and mended,

• Joshua 9:13

  And these wineskins that we filled new, look, they have split; and these cloaks of ours and our sandals have worn out from the very great length of the journey.”

• Judges 4:19

  He said to her, “Give me to drink, please, a little water, for I am thirsty.” She opened the skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him.

• 1 Samuel 16:20

  Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them by the hand of David his son to Saul.

• Psalms 56:8

  My wandering you yourself have counted; put my tears in your skin bottle; are they not in your book?

• Psalms 119:83

  Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, your statutes I have not forgotten.