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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Sinews

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sinew

SIN'EW, noun

1. In anatomy, a tendon; that which unites a muscle to a bone.

2. In the plural, strength; or rather that which supplies strength. Money is the sinews of war.

3. Muscle; nerve.

SIN'EW, verb intransitive To knit as by sinews.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sinewed

SIN'EWED, adjective

1. Furnished with sinews; as a strong-sinewed youth.

2. Strong; firm; vigorous. When he sees ourselves well sinewed to our defense.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sinewless

SIN'EWLESS, adjective Having no strength or vigor.


Naves Topical Index
Sinews

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sinew-shrunk

SIN'EW-SHRUNK, adjective Gaunt-bellied; having the sinews under belly shrunk by excess of fatigue, as a horse.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Sinewy

SIN'EWY, adjective

1. Consisting of a sinew or nerve. The sinewy thread my brain lets fall.

2. Nervous; strong well braced with sinews; vigorous; firm; as the sinewy Ajax. The northern people are large, fair complexioned, strong, sinewy and courageous.