Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to twist
Usage: 1) to twist, be twisted 1a) (Hophal) 1a1) to be twisted 1a2) twisted (participle)
Shazar means “twine” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7806 שָׁזַר (shazar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shazar (shaw-zar') v. 1. to twist (a thread of straw) [a primitive root] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include linen, fine, twined, blue, and purple. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shazar (shaw-zar') v. 1. to twist (a thread of straw) [a primitive root] KJV: twine.
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to twist
Usage: 1) to twist, be twisted 1a) (Hophal) 1a1) to be twisted 1a2) twisted (participle)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7806.
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7806, grouped by book.
Shazar (Strong's H7806) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "twine". shazar (shaw-zar') v. 1. to twist (a thread of straw) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H7806 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7806 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as linen, fine, twined, blue, purple, and scarlet. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.