אָרַג
ʼârag · aw-rag'
to plait or weave
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to plait or weave
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: weaver(-r).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the head, the highest › to carry, to lift up
Strength, the leader of the head, the highest that works to carry, to lift up.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָרַג above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of woven3 · 23%
- was like a weaver's3 · 23%
- and of the weaver1 · 8%
- unto her, if thou weavest1 · 8%
- wove1 · 8%
- like a weaver's1 · 8%
- and they that weave1 · 8%
- like a weaver1 · 8%
- and weave1 · 8%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.