To weave
עָבַתStrong’s H5686avat (a-vat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avat is the Hebrew word usually translated “weave it”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.”
Meaning
- (Piel) to wind, weave, weave together
How it's translated
- and they weave it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Micah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָבַת avat · to weave
(Piel) to wind, weave, weave together
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.