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# גִּיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1517

**sinew** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sinew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1517/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּיד: n.m. sinew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1517/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 32:33 sinew (NH id., Aramaic גִּידָא, ܓܝܳܕܳܐ; cf. Arabic جِيدٌ neck)—cstr. גִּיד Gn 32:33(×2) Is 48:4; pl. גִּידִים Jb 10:11 Ez 37:6, גִּדִים Ez 37:8; cstr. גִּידֵי Jb 40:17;—sinew, in general of human body, ‖ בשׂר, עור, עצמות, Jb 10:11 cf. Ez 37:6, 8; of thigh Gn 32:33 (of beast) v 33; iron sinew, fig. of obstinacy, Is 48:4 וג׳ בַּרְזֶל עָרְפֶּ֑ךָ וּמִצְחֲךָ נְחוּשָׁה; of hippopot., ג׳ פחדו, i.e. of his loins, Jb 40:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tendons (3); a tendon (1); tendon (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.17/#tree)

יַחְפֹּ֣ץ זְנָב֣וֹ כְמוֹ־אָ֑רֶז גִּידֵ֖י פַחֲדָ֣יו יְשֹׂרָֽגוּ׃

*Word for word:* it.stiffens tail its like a.cedar the.tendons its.thighs his they.are.intertwined

*JPS 1917:* He straineth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

[Job 10:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.11/#tree)

ע֣וֹר וּ֭בָשָׂר תַּלְבִּישֵׁ֑נִי וּֽבַעֲצָמ֥וֹת וְ֝גִידִ֗ים תְּסֹכְכֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* skin and flesh did you.clothe.me? and with bones and tendons did you.weave.me.together?

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1517.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1517/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).