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sinews

Meaning of “sinews”

Strong fibrous cords or bands of the body that bind, join, and move bones, muscles, flesh, and bodily members.

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5 occurrences5 verses2 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Job 10:11

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Every verse containing “sinews”

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Job 10:11
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 10:11 · retained source text

Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinewes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hedged.

Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 30:17 · retained source text

My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.

Job 40:17
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 40:17 · retained source text

Hee moueth his taile like a Cedar: the sinewes of his stones are wrapt together.

1611 marginal noteOr, he setteth vp.

Ezekiel 37:6
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 37:6 · retained source text

And I wil lay sinewes vpon you, and wil bring vp flesh vpon you, and couer you with skinne, and put breath in you, and ye shall liue, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 37:8
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 37:8 · retained source text

And when I beheld, loe, the sinews and the flesh came vp vpon them, and the skin couered them aboue; but there was no breath in them.

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