Word Study · Strong's H708 · Hebrew

אֶרֶג

ereg

eh'-reg

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼereg

“a weaving”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a weaving; a braid; also a shuttle

Rendered in the KJV as

beam, weaver's shuttle.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

אָ֑רֶג1
הָאֶ֖רֶג1

How it is rendered · 2

a weaver's shuttle1
the loom1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · masculine singular1
the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1

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HNcmsa · 1
HTd/Ncmsa · 1

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The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Judges1 of 2 · 50%
Job1 of 2 · 50%

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Judges1 occurrence

Judges 16:14הָאֶ֖רֶגhaeregthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularSo while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web.Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.here: the loom

Job1 occurrence

Job 7:6אָ֑רֶגʾaregnoun · masculine singularMy days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.here: a weaver's shuttle

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