Topic
Reins
14 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 7:9Easton · Smith · ISBE
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
- Psalms 26:2Easton · Smith · ISBE
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
- Jeremiah 17:10Easton · Smith · ISBE
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
- Psalms 16:7Easton · ISBE
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
- Psalms 139:13Easton · ISBE
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
- Jeremiah 11:20Smith · ISBE
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
- Job 19:27ISBE
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
- Psalms 73:21ISBE
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
- Proverbs 23:16ISBE
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
- Isaiah 11:5ISBE
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- Jeremiah 12:2ISBE
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
- Jeremiah 20:12ISBE
But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
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- 1 Maccabees 2:24 ISBE
- Revelation 2:23 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
The kidneys, the supposed seat of the desires and affections; used metaphorically for “heart.” The “reins” and the “heart” are often mentioned together, as denoting the whole moral constitution of man (Ps. 7:9; 16:7; 26:2; 139:13; Jer. 17:10, etc.).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 14 references
ranz (kilyah; nephros, words promiscuously translated "heart," "inward parts," "kidneys" or "reins." The latter word, which is derived from Latin "renes" through Old French "reins", has given place in modern English to the word "kidneys" (see Skeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 398). the Revised Version (British and American) has, however, retained the older word, at least in the margin, in all passages in which it is found in the King James Version): According to Hebrew psychology the reins are the seat of the deepest emotions and affections of man, which God alone can fully know. Thus the Revised Version (British and American) has substituted "heart" for "reins" in the text of Job 19:27; Ps 7:9; 16:7; 26:2; 73:21; Pr 23:16; Jer 11:20; 12:2; 17:10; 20:12; the translation "inward parts" is found but once (Ps 139:13). In one passage the King James Version has translated the Hebrew [~halac ("loins") with "reins" (Isa 11:5), where the Revised Version (British and American) has rightly substituted "waist" (which see). The Greek word nephros (which is etymologically allied to the Middle English nere, Get. Niere; see Skeat, ibid, 231, under the word "Kidney") is found in 1 Macc 2:24; Re 2:23.
See KIDNEYS.
H. L. E. Luering
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.