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אָרַג

ʼârag · H707 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to weave

    Causative action by which humans produce fabric by weaving

    Examples

    2 Kings 23:7 And he tore down the cubicles of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

  2. weaver

    A person who weaves fabric for a living

    Examples

    Exodus 28:32 “There shall be an opening at its top in the middle of it; around its opening there shall be a binding of woven work, like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it will not be torn.

    Exodus 35:35 “He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver, of a designer, and of an embroiderer, in violet, purple, and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs.

    Exodus 39:22 Then he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of violet;

  3. Causative action by which spiders produce a web, which is similar in shape to woven fabric (to weave (a spider's web))

    Examples

    Isaiah 59:5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; The one who eats of their eggs dies, And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.

  4. Causative action by which humans weave an object in the shape of a thread into an existing piece of woven fabric in a loom (to weave (a thread) into (an existing fabric))

    Examples

    Judges 16:13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have toyed with me and told me lies; tell me how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web [and fasten it with the pin, then I will be weak like any other man.”

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries
Weave002003001019
אָרַג describes the act of weaving, the craft of interlacing threads into fabric, as practiced by the skilled artisans who made the tabernacle's woven garments.
Professions001001003009
The word also designates the weaver as a profession, one of the skilled trades named alongside engravers, designers, and embroiderers in the tabernacle's construction.
Attach002003001001
Weaving itself is a process of joining threads together, so אָרַג also falls under the sense of binding or attaching separate strands into a single fabric.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָרַגʼârag · H707אֶרֶג ʼereg · H708 · shuttle · 2×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H707. arag אָרַג verb weave (Mishna id. compare Phoenician ארג weaver) — Qal…
H707. arag
אָרַג verb weave (Mishna id. compare Phoenician ארג weaver) —
Qal Imperfect2feminine singular תַּאַרְגִי Jdg 16:13, Jdg 16:3masculine plural יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ Isa 59:5; Participle אֹרֵג Exo 28:32 Exo 28:4t.; plural אֹרְגִים Isa 19:9 Isa 19:5t.; אֹרְגוֺת 2Ki 23:7; — weave cloth, etc. Isa 19:9 (in Egypt) 2Ki 23:7, Samson's locks Jdg 16:13; metaphor weave spider's web = intrigue Isa 59:5; most often Participle used as substantive = weaver Isa 38:12; work of the weaver א ׳מעשׂה Exo 28:32; Exo 39:22, Exo 39:27; compare Exo 35:35; weavers' beam (plural) א ׳מְנוֺר 1Sa 17:7; 2Sa 21:19; 1Ch 11:23; 1Ch 20:5 (simile of huge spear-shaft) — compare also below ארגים יַעֲרֵי.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Professions10 occurrencesAttach1 occurrenceWeave2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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