Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1517
גִּיד
gidgheed
sinew
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gîyd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1517is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1517
a thong (as compressing); by analogy, a tendon
The King James renders it: sinew.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gid is rendered "sinew". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:32Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
Genesis 32:32גִּ֣יד
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sinews2
- and a sinew of1
- and sinews1
- in sinew of1
- sinew of1
- sinews of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּגִ֖יד1
- גִּדִ֜ים1
- גִּדִים֙1
- גִּ֣יד1
- גִּידֵ֖י1
- וְגִ֤יד1
- וְ֝גִידִ֗ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Genesis
two uses
Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.
- גִּ֣ידgidnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sinew of
- בְּגִ֖ידbegidpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in sinew of
Job
two uses
You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- וְ֝גִידִ֗יםvegidimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and sinews
His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
- גִּידֵ֖יgideinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sinews of
Isaiah
one use
For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- וְגִ֤ידvegidconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a sinew of
Ezekiel
two uses
I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- גִּדִ֜יםgidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sinews
As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
- גִּדִים֙gidimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sinews
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.