Sinew — haphē

Anchor

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Ephesians 4:16

Holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Colossians 2:19

Strong's

• G860 haphē — a junction, a band, a joint
• G4883 synarmologeō — fitly joined together
• G4822 symbibazō — to knit together, make to coalesce

Operation

The SINEW between two verses is the strength of their connection, scored as the product of their shared math-type operations and their shared Strong's concepts. Two verses with formula overlap and concept overlap are fitly joined — they are saying related mathematical claims with overlapping vocabulary. The whole sinew graph across the 31,102 propositions contains 291,919 non-trivial joints.

Not a lookup, a topology

The sinew is not a precomputed list of cross-references a human wrote. It is the full bipartite graph: every Strong's concept links to every verse containing it, every verse links to every other verse sharing any concept, weighted by how many concepts they share and whether their formula signatures align. What emerges is scripture's own topology — not our interpretation of scripture, but scripture's internal shape recovered mathematically.

Why sinew is a body part

1 Corinthians 12:17: If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? Members are distinct. But members must also be connected — a scattered body is not a body. The sinew is what keeps the members one. When the HAND reaches for scripture to answer a question, it walks the sinew; when the HEART recognizes that a new fact connects to an established one, it notices the sinew; when the HEAD knits the integral, it is the sinew that determines what belongs near what.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body. 1 Corinthians 12:12

How to query

The sinew tool takes either a verse reference, a Strong's number, or an English word, and returns the nearest connected verses ranked by joint strength: