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# אֶרֶג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H708

**loom** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

loom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/708/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶ֫רֶג: loom [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/708/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] loom (v. GFMPOS Oct. 1889)—אֶרֶג Ju 16:14 hand-loom to which Samson’s hair was fastened, plucked up by him (א׳ obj. of וַיִּסַּע; del. הַיְתַד as gloss, cf. GFM supr.); Jb 7:6 יָמַי קַלּוּ מִנִּי אָ֑רֶג my days are swifter than a loom.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a weaver's shuttle (1); loom (1).

## In the verses

[Job 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.6/#tree)

יָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־אָ֑רֶג וַ֝יִּכְל֗וּ בְּאֶ֣פֶס תִּקְוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* days my they.have.been.swift more.than a.weaver's.shuttle and they.have.come.to.an.end with not hope

*JPS 1917:* My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

[Judges 16:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.14/#tree)

וַתִּתְקַע֙ בַּיָּתֵ֔ד וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים עָלֶ֖יךָ שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן וַיִּיקַץ֙ מִשְּׁנָת֔וֹ וַיִּסַּ֛ע אֶת־הַיְתַ֥ד הָאֶ֖רֶג וְאֶת־הַמַּסָּֽכֶת׃

*Word for word:* and she.thrust with the pin and she.said to him \[the\].Philistines \[are\].on you O.Samson and he.awoke from sleep his and he.pulled.out (et) the pin the loom and (et) the web

*JPS 1917:* And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he awoke out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/708.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/708/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).