Warp
שְׁתִיStrong’s H8359sheti (she-ti)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheti is the Hebrew word usually translated “warp”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;”
Meaning
- Warp, woven material
How it's translated
- in the warp 4
- the warp 4
- in warp 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 9
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:49And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
- Leviticus 13:51And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
- Leviticus 13:52He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
- Leviticus 13:53And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
- Leviticus 13:56And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
- Leviticus 13:57And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁתִי sheti · warp
warp, woven material
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “warp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WARP, noun
Waurp. [See the Verb.]
- In manufactures, the threads, which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
- In a ship, a rope employed in drawing, towing or removing a ship or boat; a towing line.
- In agriculture, a slimy substance deposited on land by marine tides, by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. [Local.]
- In cows, a miscarriage. [See the Verb.] [Local.]
All definitions and other forms of “warp”
WARP, verb intransitive
[G., to cast or throw, to whelp.]
- To turn, twist or be twisted out of a straight direction; as, a board warps in seasoning, or in the heat of the sun, by shrinking.
- To turn or incline from a straight, true or proper course; to deviate.
- To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
- To slink; to cast the young prematurely; as cows.
WARP, verb transitive
- To turn or twist out of shape, or out of a straight direction, by contraction.
- To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
- In seamens language, to two or move with a line or warp attached to buoys, to anchors or to other ships, etc.
- In rural economy, to cast the young prematurely. [Local.]
- In agriculture, to inundate, as land, with sea water; or to let in the tide, forth purpose of fertilizing the ground by a deposit of warp or slimy substance. warp here is the throw, or that which is cast by the water.
- In rope-making, to run the yarn off the winches into hauls to be tarred.
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.