Knit
Bible Usage:
- knit used 6 times.
- First Reference: Judges 20:11
- Last Reference: Colossians 2:19
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
KNIT, verb transitive nit. preterit tense and participle passive knit or knitted. [Latin nodo, whence nodus, Eng. knot.]
1. To unite, as threads by needles; to connect in a kind of net-work; as, to knit a stocking.
2. To unite closely; as, let our hearts be knit together in love.
3. To join or cause to grow together.
Nature cannot knit the bones, while the parts are under a discharge.
4. To tie; to fasten.
And he saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it were a great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts 10:11.
5. To draw together; to contract; as, to knit the brows.
KNIT, verb intransitive nit. To unite or interweave by needles.
1. To unite closely; to grow together. Broken bones will in time knit and become sound.
KNIT, noun nit. Union by knitting; texture. [Little used.]
KNIT'TABLE, adjective nit'table. That may be knit.
KNIT'TER, noun nit'ter. One that knits.
KNIT'TING, participle present tense nit'ting. Uniting by needles; forming texture; uniting in growth.
KNIT'TING, noun Junction.
KNIT'TING-NEEDLE, noun nit'ting-needle. A long needle usually made of wire, used for knitting threads into stockings, garters, etc.
KNIT'TLE, noun nit'l. [from knit.] A string that gathers or draws together a purse.
1. A small line used in ships to sling hammocks.