| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (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. 2. (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. 3. (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. 4. (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. 5. (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. 6. (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. 7. (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. 8. (a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action. 9. (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together. 10. (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. 11. (a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond. 12. (v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. 13. (v. t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. 14. (v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. 15. (v. t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat. 16. (v. i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Joint (12 Occurrences) Romans 8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS) 1 Corinthians 9:23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it. (WEB ASV) Ephesians 3:6 I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, and that they form one body with us, and have the same interest as we have in the promise which has been made good in Christ Jesus through the Good News, (WEY DBY WBS) Ephesians 4:16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV) Hebrews 12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put entirely out of joint (WEY NAS RSV) 1 Peter 3:7 You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered. (WEB ASV RSV) Genesis 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. (KJV DBY WBS YLT RSV) Genesis 32:32 Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the joint of Jacob's thigh the sinew. (DBY) Job 31:22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. (See NIV) Psalms 22:14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. (KJV JPS ASV WBS) Ezekiel 41:8 And I saw that the house had an elevation round about: the foundations of the side-chambers, a full reed, six cubits to the joint. (DBY) |