גִּידgîyd

sinew (Genesis 32:33; Isaiah 48:4; Job 10:11; Ezekiel 37:6; Ezekiel 37:8)

Pronunciation: gheed · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1517

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 32:32 (Even today the people of Israel don’t eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.)
  • Job 10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together.
  • Job 40:17 Its tail is as strong as a cedar. The sinews of its thighs are knit tightly together.
  • Isaiah 48:4 For I know how stubborn and obstinate you are. Your necks are as unbending as iron. Your heads are as hard as bronze.
  • Ezekiel 37:6 I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
  • Ezekiel 37:8 Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).