νεῦρον
sinew, nerve
Where this word appears
Every passage where νεῦρον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 32:33 νεῦρον
- Genesis 32:33 νεῦρον
- Genesis 49:24 νεῦρον But their bow and arrows were mightily consumed, and the sinews of their arms were slackened by the hand of the mighty one of Jacob; thence is he that strengthened Israel from the God of your father;
- Job 10:11 νεῦρον And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
- Job 30:17 νεῦρον And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
- Job 40:17 νεῦρον And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.
- Proverbs 24:22 νεῦρον For they will suddenly punish the ungodly, and who can know the vengeance inflicted by both? [A son that keeps the commandment shall escape destruction; for such an one has fully received it. Let no falsehood be spoken by the king from the tongue; yes, let no falsehood proceed from his tongue. The king's tongue is a sword, and not one of flesh; and whoever shall be given up to it shall be destroyed: for if his wrath should be provoked, he destroys men with cords, and devours men's bones, and burns them up as a flame, so that they are not even fit to be eaten by the young eagles. My son, reverence my words, and receive them, and repent.]
- Isaiah 48:4 νεῦρον I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead brazen.
- Ezekiel 37:6 νεῦρον and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and will spread skin upon you, and will put my Spirit into you, and you⌃ shall live; and you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 37:8 νεῦρον And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and skin came upon them above: but there was not breath in them.
About this word
About this word
νεῦρον (neûron), “sinew, nerve,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 10 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →