Bible Dictionary: Weaver

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.

2. (n.) A weaver bird.

3. (n.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.

Strong's Hebrew

4500. manor -- a (weaver's) beam
... 4499, 4500. manor. 4501 . a (weaver's) beam. Transliteration: manor
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-nore') Short Definition: beam. Word ...
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707. arag -- to weave
... 706, 707. arag. 708 . to weave. Transliteration: arag Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-rag') Short Definition: weaver's. Word Origin a prim. ... weaver. ...
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708. ereg -- a loom
... loom. Word Origin from arag Definition a loom NASB Word Usage loom (1),
weaver's shuttle (1). beam, weaver's shuttle. From 'arag; a ...
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7551. raqam -- to variegate
... 7550, 7551. raqam. 7552 . to variegate. Transliteration: raqam Phonetic Spelling:
(raw-kam') Short Definition: weaver. Word Origin a prim. ...
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Library

Letter W
... Thomas "Received 1787, Died 1792 * Weatherly, Henry T. "Received 1829, Withdrew
1837 * Weathersby, John F. "Received 1828, Located 1821 * Weaver, John P ...
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Carey's College
... The Heart of England"The Weaver Carey who became a Peer, and the weaver who was
father of William Carey"Early training in Paulerspury"Impressions made by ...
/.../smith/the life of william carey/chapter i careys college.htm

Christ Teaching by Miracles
... "The Dead Raven." A poor weaver in Edinburgh lost his situation one winter, on account
of business being so dull. ... It fell at the feet of the pious weaver. ...
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Kingo's Childhood and Youth
... the grandfather of the poet, immigrated from Crail, Scotland, to Denmark about 1590,
and settled at Helsingør, Sjælland, where he worked as a tapestry weaver ...
/.../aaberg/hymns and hymnwriters of denmark/chapter three kingos childhood and.htm

Clairvoyance
... It never uses the word "irrevocable." It speaks of water spilt on the ground
that cannot be gathered up again"a thread cut by the weaver. ...
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1869-1870. Emigration of Families --A visitor's Impressions --The ...
... "In another court we found a silk-weaver hard at work,"from eight in the
morning to eleven at night. This man, a Christian, had ...
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"What is Your Life?"
... A swift ship. A flower. A handbreath. A weaver's shuttle. A shepherd's tent removed.
Water spilt on the ground. A thread cut by the weaver. Grass. A dream. ...
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Jewish views on Trade, Tradesmen, and Trades' Guilds
... The saying was: "A weaver must be humble, or his life will be shortened by
excommunication"; that is, he must submit to anything for a living. ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 11 jewish views on.htm

Sailors' Hymns.
... [Footnote 35: Hugh Wilson was a Scotch weaver of Kilmarnock, born 1764; died 1824.].
"FIERCE WAS THE WILD BILLOW.". ([Greek: Zopheras trikumias]). ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter x sailors hymns.htm

The Valleys --Experiences of Suffering and Sacrifice
... The weaver we were speaking of finds some strange shuttle-threads to be woven into
the pattern, gray black, ugly black threads, and red threads almost wet and ...
/.../quiet talks on following the christ/3 the valleysexperiences of suffering.htm

Thesaurus

Weaver (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.
2. (n.) A weaver bird. ... Multi-Version Concordance Weaver (11 Occurrences). ...
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Weaver's (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Weaver's (5 Occurrences). 1 Samuel 17:7 The staff
of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's ...
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Elhanan (4 Occurrences)
... Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan, the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite, slew
Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam"; while ...
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Finely (27 Occurrences)
... Exodus 26:36 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours. ...
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Beam (17 Occurrences)
... In 1 Samuel 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Habakkuk 2:11,
a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house; 1 ...
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Weaving (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side,
fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle. Int. ...
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Twisted (79 Occurrences)
... Exodus 26:36 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours. ...
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Weavers (4 Occurrences)

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Embroidery (12 Occurrences)
... The fact that this word is used instead of `aragh, "weaver," would lead us to suppose
that the embroiderers' work was either different from that of the weaver...
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Goliath (6 Occurrences)
... The staff of his apear "was like a weaver's beam." The Authorized Version interpolates
the words "the brother of" from 1 Chronicles 20:5, where this giant is ...
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Bible Concordance

Weaver (11 Occurrences)

Exodus 26:36 And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
(See JPS NAS)

Exodus 27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
(See JPS NAS)

Exodus 28:32 and the opening for its head hath been in its midst, a border is to its opening round about, work of a weaver, as the opening of a habergeon there is to it; it is not rent.
(YLT)

Exodus 28:39 And thou shalt weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
(See JPS NAS)

Exodus 35:35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
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Exodus 36:37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;
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Exodus 38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen.
(See JPS NAS)

Exodus 39:22 And he maketh the upper robe of the ephod, work of a weaver, completely of blue;
(YLT NIV)

Exodus 39:27 And they make the coats of linen, work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons,
(YLT NIV)

Exodus 39:29 and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
(See JPS NAS)

Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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Subtopics

Weaver

Related Terms

Weaver's (5 Occurrences)

Elhanan (4 Occurrences)

Finely (27 Occurrences)

Beam (17 Occurrences)

Weaving (4 Occurrences)

Twisted (79 Occurrences)

Weavers (4 Occurrences)

Embroidery (12 Occurrences)

Goliath (6 Occurrences)