Weave
מַסֶּ֫כֶתStrong’s H4545massekhet (mas-se-khet)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Massekhet is the Hebrew word usually translated “web”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Webweb of unfinished stuff on a loom
How it's translated
- the web 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מַסֶּ֫כֶת massekhet · weave
1) web 1a) web of unfinished stuff on a loom
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.