To weave
אָרַגStrong’s H0707arag (a-rag)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Arag is the Hebrew word usually translated “weavers”, “weaver” and “weave”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.”
Meaning
- To weave(Qal)
How it's translated
- weavers 4
- a weaver 3
- and a weaver 1
- you will weave 1
- and she wove 1
- weaving 1
- and weave 1
- like weaver 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 4
- Isaiah 3
- Judges 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 35:35Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
- Exodus 39:22And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
- Exodus 39:27And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
- Judges 16:13And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
- Judges 16:14And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
- 1 Samuel 17:7And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
Hebrew dictionary
אָרַג arag · to weave
1) to weave 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to weave (cloth) 1a2) to braid (Samson's hair) 1a3) weaver (subst.) 1a4) intrigue (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “weave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEAVE, verb transitive
preterit tense wove; participle passive woven, wove. The regular form, weaved, is rarely or never used. [G., Gr.]
- To unite threads of any kind in such a manner as to form cloth.
- To unite any thing flexible; as, to weave twigs.
- To unite by intermixture or close connection; as a form of religion woven into the civil government.
- To interpose; to insert.
All definitions and other forms of “weave”
WEAVE, verb intransitive
To practice weaving; to work with a loom.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.