חֵ֫שֶׁב
girdle
also: band, ingenious work fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2805 appears — 8 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 28:8 וְ/חֵ֤שֶׁב conj + n c ms cs The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 28:27 לְ/חֵ֖שֶׁב prep + n c ms cs You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart of it, close by the coupling of it, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
- Exodus 28:28 חֵ֣שֶׁב n c ms cs They shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
- Exodus 29:5 בְּ/חֵ֖שֶׁב prep + n c ms cs You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and dress him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
- Exodus 39:5 וְ/חֵ֨שֶׁב conj + n c ms cs The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:20 לְ/חֵ֖שֶׁב prep + n c ms cs They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the front of it, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
- Exodus 39:21 חֵ֣שֶׁב n c ms cs They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חשב (chêsheb) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “girdle.” Exodus dominates its distribution — 7 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Exodus 28:8. The lexical range runs to 2 senses — “girdle” plus “band” and “ingenious work”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2805 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Curious girdle 6×
- American Standard Version: Skilfully woven band 3×, Above the skilfully woven band 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Woven waistband 3×, Skillfully woven waistband 2×, Waistband 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Finely crafted waistband of 2×, Finely woven waistband of 2×, Skillfully crafted sash of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2805 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2805 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2805 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2805 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- girdle, band, ingenious work
- ingenious work - the name of the girdle or band of the ephod
Word origin
n.m. ingenious work, name of the girdle or band of the ephod (cunningly woven band, RV), only P; always in combin., ח׳ האפ(ו)ד Ex 28:27, 28; 29:5; 39:20, 21 Lv 8:7; ח׳ אֲפֻדָּתוֹ Ex 28:8; 39:5.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חשב (châshab) (H2803) — to think.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חָשַׁב
- 1. to think, intend, plan. Ber. 6ᵃ; Kidd. 40ᵃ (ref. to Mal. III, 16) אפי׳ ח׳ אדם וכ׳ even if one only had the intention of doing etc.; Sabb. 63ᵃ חִישֵּׁב (Pi.).—Tanḥ. P’kudé 11 וכשהן חוֹשְׁבִין להעמידו וכ׳ and when they thought they had put it up, it fell apart again. Sot. 35ᵃ אני חֲשַׁבְתִּיהָ … והם חָשְׁבוּ וכ׳ I planned it for their good, but they considered it an evil; a. fr. e.g. Malachi 3:16
- 2. to consider, regard; to count. Ber. 14ᵃ (ref. to Is. II, 22) במה חֲשַׁבְתּוֹ לזה ולא לאלוה with what right didst thou pay thy regard to him and not to God?—Sot. l. c., v. supra. Pesik. R. s. 21, v. סוֹפִיסְטָא; a. fr. e.g. Isaiah 2:22
- 3. to design, trace. Yoma 72ᵇ (ref. to חשב a. רקם, Ex. XXVI, 31ᵃ 36) רוקמין במקום שחוֹשְׁבִין they embroidered over what they had traced.—Part. pass. חָשׁוּב fem. חֲשׁוּבָה a) counted, regarded; ח׳ כ־ equal to. Lam. R. to I, 5 לא … מדינה ח׳ כלום the country towns were of no account. Ned. 64ᵇ ח׳ כמת is like dead; ib. חֲשׁוּבִין כמת; Gen. R. s. 71 חֲשׁוּבִים כמתים; a. fr.—b) valuable; important; respectable, of high standing. Bets. 3ᵇ ביצה ח׳ an egg is a valuable object. Ber. 19ᵃ, a. fr. אדם ח׳ שאני with a man of high standing it is different. Pes. 108ᵃ אשה ח׳ a woman of rank. Tanḥ. Shmini 9 איש ח׳ שמחשבים וכ׳ a man of standing whom they respected in his place; a. fr. e.g. Exodus 26:31
- same,
- 1. to consider, regard; to respect, v. supra.
- 2. to account, calculate, figure. B. Bath. 78ᵇ המְחַשְּׁבִים the thoughtful. Sabb. 150ᵃ. חשבונות … לחַשְּׁבָן וכ׳ accounts of a religious nature may be figured out on the Sabbath. Ab. II, 1 הוי מְחַשְּׁב וכ׳ count what you sacrifice in doing good, against what you gain thereby. Snh. 65ᵇ המח׳ עתים וכ׳ he who calculates seasons and hours (which are auspicious and which are not). Ib. 97ᵇ מְחַשְּׁבֵי קיצין those who make calculations (from Biblical verses) as to when the Messiah will come; a. fr.—[Sabb. 150ᵇ top מותר לחוֹשְׁבָן (Kal), Ms. M. לחַשְּׁ׳.]—V. חֶשְׁבּוֹן.
- 3. (sub. מחשבה זרה) to have in mind an undue intention in the performance of a sacrificial ceremony. Yoma 48ᵃ חי׳ בחפינת וכ׳ if he had an undue intention when grasping the frankincense (e.g. to offer it tomorrow). Ib.ᵇ; a. fr.
- 1. to be counted. Ohol. I, 3 אין האהל מִתְחַשֵּׁב the tent is not counted (as a special item). Yalk. Num. 768 מתח׳ לנו will be counted against us (be deducted from our share). Mikv. III, 3 עד שיִתְחַשֵּׁב וכ׳ until it is calculated that all the original water has run off. Pesik. R. s. 44 the former sins אינן מִתְחַשְּׁבוֹת לו וכ׳ are not counted or remembered to him.
- 2. to be considered, believed to be. Tanḥ. Masé 5, v. כַּזְבָּן.
- 3. to occupy a high position. Shebi. VIII, 11 אם מתחשב הוא (Ms. M. כמ׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) if he (is like one who) holds a high position.
- 4. to conspire (with the Romans). Tosef. Ab. Zar. II, 7 ואם מתחשב וכ׳ but when he (the Israelite besieging a city) does it as an ally (in the Roman interest), he is forbidden (to conduct the siege); Ab. Zar. 18ᵇ ובלבד שלא יִתְחַשֵּׁב עמהם provided he does not conspire with them; ואם נתח׳ וכ׳ (Ms. M. יתח׳); Y. ib. I, 40ᵃ מתחשד (corr. acc.).
חֲשֵׁב
- Targ. Gen. L, 20. Targ. Esth. VIII, 3; a. fr.—Pesik. B’shall., p. 82ᵃ (translating Ex. XVIII, 11ᵇ) במחשבה דחַשְׁבוּן איתחשב להון what they had planned (against Israel) was planned against them. Sabb. 3ᵃ קא חֲשִׁיב he counts in; a. fr.—Part. pass. חָשִׁיב, pl. חֲשִׁיבִין = h. חָשׁוּב, v. preced. Targ. Y. Ex. IV, 19; a. fr.—Keth. 8ᵇ ח׳ את וכ׳ thou hast been found worthy to be seized (to suffer) for etc. Gitt. 56ᵇ מאן ח׳ וכ׳ who is highly esteemed in that world (the hereafter)?; a. fr.
- same, to plan, to count, calculate. Targ. Jer. XXI, 11.—Targ. O. Lev. XXV, 27; a. fr.—Meg. 11ᵇ חַשִּׁיב ועייל וכ׳ count, and include in their place &c. Pes. 94ᵃ דקא חַשְּׁבֵי דקדמא וכ׳ because they also counted the distances which one walks before dawn and after sunset. Sabb. 74ᵃ וליחַשֵּׁב וכ׳ let him also count the act of pounding; ib. 6ᵇ; a. e. ולִחְשׁוֹב (Pe.); a. fr. [Y. Pes. IV, end, 31ᶜ מחשבנא v. חֲשַׂךְ.]
- אִיחֲשַׁב
- 1. to be planned. Targ. O. Gen. L, 20.—Pesik. l. c., v. supra.
- 2. to be considered, valued. Targ. Lev. XVII, 4. Targ. Ps. L, 23; a. fr.—[Targ. Prov. XXIX, 11 מֵיחֲשַׁב Ms. (ed. Lag. מחשב, Var. מאשב) is respected (v. Pesh. a. l.; ed. Wil. מאכה v. מְאַךְ).]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H2805 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֵ֣שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:28 | 2 |
| לְ/חֵ֖שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:27 | 2 |
| בְּ/חֵ֖שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 29:5 | 1 |
| בְּ/חֵ֨שֶׁב֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 8:7 | 1 |
| וְ/חֵ֤שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 28:8 | 1 |
| וְ/חֵ֨שֶׁב | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Exodus 39:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2805, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- חשב chăshab H2804 to think
- חשבון cheshbôwn H2808 reckoning
- חשבון chishshâbôwn H2810 device
- מחשבה machăshâbâh H4284 thought
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- חשבדנה Chashbaddânâh H2806 Hashbadana
- חשבה Chăshubâh H2807 Hashubah
- חשביה Chăshabyâh H2811 Hashabiah
- חשוב Chashshûwb H2815 Hashub
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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