שָׁבַץ

shavats · weave in checks; set

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7660 · appears 2 times in the Bible

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What it means

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

  1. To make cloth with a checkered pattern, like the priest's tunic.
  2. 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

Related words

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.