H1517

גִּיד

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sinew

sinew

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

גִּיד noun masculineGen 32:33 sinew (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic גִּידָא, ; compare Arabic neck) — construct גִּיד Gen 32:33 (twice in verse); Isa 48:4 plural גִּידִים Job 10:11; Ezek 37:6, גִּדִים Ezek 37:8 construct גִּידֵי Job 40:17 — sinew, in general of human body, || בשׂר, עור, עצמות, Job 10:11 compare Ezek 37:6; Ezek 37:8 of thigh Gen 32:33 (of beast) 32:33; iron sinew, figurative of obstinacy, Isa 48:4 בַּרְזֶל עָרְפֶּ֑ךָ וּמִצְחֲךָ נְחוּשָׁה ׳וג; of hippopotamus, פחדו ׳ג, i.e. of his loins, Job 40:17.


5 occurrences

Job (2), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (2)