Shuttle
אֶ֫רֶגStrong’s H0708ereg (e-reg)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ereg is the Hebrew word usually translated “loom” and “weaver s shuttle”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Loom, shuttle
How it's translated
- the loom 1
- a weaver s shuttle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֶ֫רֶג ereg · shuttle
loom, shuttle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shuttle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHUT'TLE, noun
[from the root of shoot; Ice. skutul.]
An instrument used by weavers for shooting the thread of the woof in weaving from one side of the cloth to the other, between the threads of the warp.
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.