שָׁזַר
sha.zar
“to twist”
Definition
to twist (a thread of straw)
a primitive root;
- to twist, be twisted 1a) (Hophal) 1a1) to be twisted 1a2) twisted (participle)
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
שָׁזַר appears 21 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
You are also to make a breastpiece of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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