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Hebrew · Strong's H1517

גִּיד

gidgheed

a thong (as compressing)

1890 spelling: gîyd

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

a thong (as compressing); by analogy, a tendon

Rendered in the KJV as

sinew.

  • 7
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 7
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 7 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 7

  • בְּגִ֖יד1
  • גִּדִ֜ים1
  • גִּדִים֙1
  • גִּ֣יד1
  • גִּידֵ֖י1
  • וְגִ֤יד1
  • וְ֝גִידִ֗ים1

How it is rendered · 6

  • sinews2
  • [the] sinew of1
  • [the] sinews of1
  • and [was] a sinew of1
  • and sinews1
  • in [the] sinew of1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 6

  • noun · masculine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpa · 2
  • HC/Ncmpa · 1
  • HC/Ncmsc · 1
  • HNcmpc · 1
  • HNcmsc · 1
  • HR/Ncmsc · 1

All 7, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Job2 occurrences
Isaiah1 occurrence
Ezekiel2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).