# H1517 גִּיד

גִּיד (gîyd), Strong’s H1517: a thong (as compressing); by analogy, a tendon KJV: sinew.. Occurs 7 times.

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*gîyd* — a thong (as compressing); by analogy, a tendon

KJV: sinew.

Derived from [גּוּד gûwd](https://besorah.bible/word/H1464) (to crowd upon, i.e. attack)

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גִּיד n.m. sinew

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 32:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=33) — Therefore the children of Israel don’t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day…
- [Isaiah 48:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/48?v=4) — Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
- [Ezekiel 37:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/37?v=6) — I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will…
- [Ezekiel 37:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/37?v=8) — I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath…
- [Job 10:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/10?v=11) — You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- [Job 40:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/40?v=17) — He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.