Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sinew' occurs 4 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sinew' in the standard works and contain 50% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 32:32 (2 in 1 verse)

 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 3 5 8
NT 0 0 0
BM 1 0 1
DC 0 1 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 4 6 10

Gen. 32:32
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Job 10:11
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Job 40:17
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

Isa. 48:4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Ezek. 37:6
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 37:8
And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

1 Ne. 20:4
And I did it because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

D&C 138:17
Their sleeping dust was to be restored unto its perfect frame, bone to his bone, and the sinews and the flesh upon them, the spirit and the body to be united never again to be divided, that they might receive a fulness of joy.