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# חֵשֶׁב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2805

**ingenious work** — used 8 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

ingenious work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2805/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫שֶׁב: n.m. ingenious work [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2805/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ingenious work, name of the girdle or band of the ephod (cunningly woven band, RV), only P; always in combin., ח׳ האפ(ו)ד Ex 28:27, 28; 29:5; 39:20, 21 Lv 8:7; ח׳ אֲפֻדָּתוֹ Ex 28:8; 39:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the girdle (6); girdle (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.8/#tree)

וְחֵ֤שֶׁב אֲפֻדָּתוֹ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֔יו כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ מִמֶּ֣נּוּ יִהְיֶ֑ה זָהָ֗ב תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and the.girdle its.ephod his which \[will be\].on.it \[will be\] like.its.workmanship from it it.will.be gold violet.stuff and purple and scarlet.stuff of.scarlet and fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

[Exodus 39:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.5/#tree)

וְחֵ֨שֶׁב אֲפֻדָּת֜וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָלָ֗יו מִמֶּ֣נּוּ הוּא֮ כְּמַעֲשֵׂהוּ֒ זָהָ֗ב תְּכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מָשְׁזָ֑ר כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and the.girdle its.ephod his which \[was\].on it \[was\].from it it \[will be\] like.its.workmanship gold violet.stuff and purple and scarlet.stuff of.scarlet and fine.linen twisted just as he.had.commanded Yahweh (et) Moses

*JPS 1917:* And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work thereof: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2805.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2805/): 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).