אָרַג arag

Hebrew word for “to weave” · Strong’s H707 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

1) to weave; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to weave (cloth); 1a2) to braid (Samson's hair); 1a3) weaver (subst.); 1a4) intrigue (fig.)

How it is translated

Glosses given for arag in context, with how often each is used:

• weaver 4
• weavers 4
• will weave 1
• weaving 1
• those who weave 1
• like weaver 1
• weave 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 39 (2), Exodus 28 (1), Exodus 35 (1), Judges 16 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), 2 Samuel 21 (1), 2 Kings 23 (1), 1 Chronicles 11 (1), 1 Chronicles 20 (1), Isaiah 19 (1)

Forms

• ארגים 4
• ארג 3
• וארג 1
• תארגי 1
• ארגות 1
• וארגים 1
• כארג 1
• יארגו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with arag more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מָנוֹר manor “loom-beam” 4
• חֲנִית chanit “spear” 4
• אֶלְחָנָן elchanan “Elhanan” 2
• גׇּלְיַת golyat “Goliath” 2
• גִּתִּי gitti “Gittite” 2
• מַעֲשֶׂה maaseh “deed” 3
• עֵץ ets “tree” 3
• שֵׁשׁ shesh “linen” 2
• תְּכֵלֶת tekhelet “blue” 2
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 3
• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 2
• מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 2

Key verses

The verses using arag that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 28:32 — And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an…
• Exodus 35:35 — Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in…
• Exodus 39:22 — And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
• Exodus 39:27 — And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
• 1 Samuel 17:7 — And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
• 2 Samuel 21:19 — And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the…
• 2 Kings 23:7 — And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
• 1 Chronicles 11:23 — And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a…
• 1 Chronicles 20:5 — And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s…
• Isaiah 19:9 — Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
• Isaiah 38:12 — Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even…
• Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.