Hebrew

To spin

טָוָהStrong’s H2901

tavah (ta-vah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “spun”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.”

Exodus 35:25 KJV

Meaning

(Qal) to spin

How it's translated

they spun 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Exodus 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Exodus 35:26And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.

Hebrew dictionary

טָוָה tavah · to spin

(Qal) to spin

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “spin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SPIN, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive spun. Span is not used. [If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.]

To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton or flax; to spin goats' hair.
To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process of be degrees; with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
To extend to a great length; as, to spin out a subject.
To draw out; to protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives.

All definitions

To whirl with a thread; to turn or cause to whirl; as, to spin a top.
To draw out from the stomach in a filament; as, a spider spins a web.
To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; as, the woman knows how to spin They neither know to spin nor car to toil.
To perform the act of drawing and twisting threads; as, a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
To move round rapidly; to whirl; as a top or a spindle.
To stream or issue in a thread or small current; as, blood spins from a vein.

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.