Joint
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting.
(2): ( n.) A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall.
(3): ( v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
(4): ( v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
(5): ( v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
(6): ( v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
(7): ( n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
(8): ( n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
(9): ( n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.
(10): ( n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.
(11): ( n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
(12): ( a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
(13): ( a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.
(14): ( n.) A place of low resort, as for smoking opium.
(15): ( v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
(16): ( n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.
(17): ( a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate, or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc.
(18): ( n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
(19): ( a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"a joining, joint" (akin to harmozo, "to fit, join"), is found in Hebrews 4:12 , figuratively (with the word "marrow") of the inward moral and spiritual being of man, as just previously expressed literally in the phrase "soul and spirit."
"a ligature, joint" (akin to hapto, "to fit, to fasten"), occurs in Ephesians 4:16; Colossians 2:19 .
King James Dictionary [3]
JOINT, n. L. junctura. See Join.
1. The joining of two or more things. 2. In anatomy, the joining of two or more bones an articulation as the elbow, the knee, or the knuckle. 3. A knot the union of two parts of a plant or the space between two joints an internode as the joint of a cane, or of a stalk of maiz. 4. A hinge a juncture of parts which admits of motion. 5. The place where two pieces of timber are united. 6. In joinery, straight lines are called a joint, when two pieces of wood are planed. 7. One of the limbs of an animal cut up by the butcher.
Out of joint, luxated dislocated as when the head of a bone is displaced from its socket. Hence figuratively, confused disordered misplaced.
JOINT, a. Shared by two or more as joint property.
1. United in the same profession having an interest in the same thing as a joint-heir or heiress. 2. United combined acting in concert as a joint force joint efforts joint vigor.
Joint stock, the capital or fund of a company or partnership in business.
JOINT, To form with joints or articulations used mostly in the participle as the fingers are jointed a cane has a jointed stalk.
1. To form many parts into one as jointed wood. 2. To cut or divide into joints or quarters.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
besides its usual meaning ( דֶּבֶק De ' Bek, Ἁφή , etc.), is, in one passage ( Song of Solomon 7:1), very erroneously employed in the A.V. as a rendering of חִמּוּקים , Chammukim ' (Sept. vaguely Ῥνθμοί , Vulg. juncturoe, occurs nowhere else), the Wrappers (of the thighs), i.e. Drawers, a part of the female dress; which, in the case of bridal toilette, are represented as being fringed with a worked edging like lace or a skillfully chased jewel. (See Attire).
