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# שָׁזַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7806

**be twisted** — used 21 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

be twisted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7806/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁזַר: vb. be twisted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7806/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be twisted (NH שָׁזַר twist; cf. Arabic شَزَرَ look askew at, also twist cord from the left BaES 49 (expl. שׁ, for normal שׂ, as dissim. before ז), JacobAr. Dichter i. 52);—Pt. שֵׁשׁ מָשְׁזָר Ex 26:1, 31, 36 + 17 times Ex (P); שֵׁשׁ om. 39:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: twisted (21).

## In the verses

[Exodus 38:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.38.16/#tree)

כָּל־קַלְעֵ֧י הֶחָצֵ֛ר סָבִ֖יב שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* all the.curtains of the.courtyard all.around \[were\].fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

[Exodus 39:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.24/#tree)

וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ עַל־שׁוּלֵ֣י הַמְּעִ֔יל רִמּוֹנֵ֕י תְּכֵ֥לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן וְתוֹלַ֣עַת שָׁנִ֑י מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.made on the.skirts of the.robe pomegranates of.violet.stuff and purple and scarlet.stuff of.scarlet twisted

*JPS 1917:* And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7806.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7806/): 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).