Word study

Knit

4 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “knit”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “knit” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • עֵרֶב êrebmixture, mixed companytranslated this way 9 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H6154Noun  ·  Translated: knit 9, mixed tribes 2, mixed 1, foreign descent 1

    Leviticus 13:48 any weave or knit of linen or wool, or any article of leather—

    Leviticus 13:49 and if the mark in the fabric, leather, weave, knit, or leather article is green or red, then it is contaminated with mildew and must be shown to the priest.

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  • סָכַךְ sâkakovershadow, screen, covertranslated this way 2 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s H5526Verb  ·  Translated: overshadowing 2, cover 2, overshadowed 2, knit me together 2

    Job 10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

    Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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  • שָׂרַג sâragbe intertwinedtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H8276Verb  ·  Translated: tightly knit 1, knit together 1

    Job 40:17 His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

    Lamentations 1:14 My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

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  • קָשַׁר qâsharbind, league together, conspiretranslated this way 1 time of its 44 uses · Strong’s H7194Verb  ·  Translated: conspired 18, Tie 4, tied 3, bind 3

    1 Samuel 18:1 After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • συμβιβάζω symbibázōI unite, prove, instructtranslated this way 2 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s G4822Verb  ·  Translated: knit together 2, proving 1, concluding 1, explain 1

    Colossians 2:2 that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

    Colossians 2:19 He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.

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  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
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  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.