שָׁבַץ
shavats · weave in checks; set
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7660 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shavats (שָׁבַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “weave in checks; set”.
Weave in a checkered pattern; set a stone in its setting.
How to say it
sha·vats
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To make cloth with a checkered pattern, like the priest's tunic.
- To fix precious stones in their gold mountings.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- You shall weave ×1
- set ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 28:20
and the fourth row, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper. They shall be set in gold in their mountings.
- Exodus 28:39
You shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and make a turban of fine linen, and a sash you shall make, the work of an embroiderer.