Sash, cloth belt
Human-made Things in the Bible
The sash was a long cloth belt that was wrapped several times around the waist of the High Priest over the tunic (see Tunic, shirt). His fellow priests also wore sashes. According to , the High Priest’s sash was embroidered of four kinds of thread. According to post-biblical Jewish tradition, it was 32 cubits (about 16 meters or 53 feet) long. Even if the tradition exaggerates the length, it was probably long enough to be wound around the waist several times before being tied. See the illustration at Ephod.
In the Bible
The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used
אַבְנֵט ’avnet · 8 verses
חגר chagar · 4 verses
Also in High Priest’s clothing
Sources
Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema