שָׁזַר
to twist
‘to twist’ is one of 3 main senses 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7806 appears — 21 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 21 verses
- Exodus 26:1 מָשְׁזָ֗ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
- Exodus 26:31 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
- Exodus 26:36 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 27:9 מָשְׁזָ֗ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:16 מָשְׁזָ֖ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms 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.
- Exodus 27:18 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 28:6 מָשְׁזָ֖ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- Exodus 28:8 מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal ptcp.pass ms 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 28:15 מָשְׁזָ֖ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
- Exodus 36:8 מָשְׁזָ֗ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
- Exodus 36:35 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
- Exodus 36:37 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
- Exodus 38:9 מָשְׁזָ֔ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
- Exodus 38:16 מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal ptcp.pass ms All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
- Exodus 38:18 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.
- Exodus 39:2 מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal ptcp.pass ms He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 39:5 מָשְׁזָ֑ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms 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 39:8 מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal ptcp.pass ms He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 39:24 מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal ptcp.pass ms They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
- Exodus 39:28 מָשְׁזָֽר Hophal ptcp.pass ms and the turban of fine linen, and the linen headbands of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,
- Exodus 39:29 מָשְׁזָ֗ר Hophal ptcp.pass ms and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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.
שזר (shâzar) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to twist.” Exodus dominates its distribution — 21 of 21 verses. Spanning 21 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The King James Version usually renders it “fine twined,” while modern versions prefer “finely spun” (Berean Standard Bible) and “twisted” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. See the sense tree, 21-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7806 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 →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,462
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 21 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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 21 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 21 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: Fine twined 18×, Were of fine twined 2×
- American Standard Version: Fine twined 18×, Were of fine twined 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Finely spun 19×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Twisted 16×, Fine 3×, Twined 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7806 across 21 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7806 across 21 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7806 across 21 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7806 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 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.
- to twist, be twisted
(Hophal)
- to be twisted
- twisted (participle)
Word origin
[ שָׁזַר ] 21 vb. Hoph. be twisted
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
זֵר
- , v. זֵיר
זָר
- v. זוּר a.
- 1. stranger; (in Talm. mostly) non-priest, layman. Zeb. II, 1. Ib. 14ᵃ; Yoma 49ᵃ; a. fr.—Fem. זָרָה. Yeb. 85ᵇ ותהא ז׳ וכ׳ granted that she is not of a priestly family;—is not a lay-woman permitted &c.?
- 2. oppressor, enemy. Y. Ned. IX, beg. 41ᵇ (ref. to אל זר, Ps. LXXXI, 10) זר שבקרבך וכ׳ do not make the enemy within thyself thy king; Sabb. 105ᵇ איזהו אל זר וכ׳ which is the tyrannical power within thee?—Ex. R. s. 34 (play on זֵר a. זָר, v. זֵיר) if one is worthy נעשים לו זֵר ואם לאו זר they are to him a crown, if not—an enemy; Tanḥ. Vayakh. 8.—Fem. זָרָה. Yoma 72ᵇ נעשית לו ז׳ Ms. O. (Ms. M. נעשית ז׳ ממנו) the Law appears to him a tyrant (Ms. M. she becomes estranged from him, v. זוּר). e.g. Psalms 81:10
- 3. outcast; shunned, loathsome (v. זָרָא). Num. R. s. 7 (play on זָרָא, Num. XI, 20) והיאך נעשה ז׳ וכ׳ and how does he become an outcast? Leprosy overcomes him.—Pl. זָרִים. Ib. ז׳ מן הקהל excluded from the congregation.—Zeb. III, 1; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 11:20
זָר ²
- Targ. Ps. XLIV, 19, v. זְהַהּ.—Sabb. 82ᵇ, v. נְכַר.
שָׁזַר
- to twist.—Part. pass. שָׁזוּר; pl. שְׁזוּרִים, שְׁזוּרִין. Y. Shek. VIII, 51ᵇ top (ref. to Ex. XXVI, 31) אילו נאמר חוט … שזור לשלשה מָשְׁזָר לששה וכ׳ if the text had ḥuṭ (thread), it would have meant one doubled to two, shazur would have meant triplex, moshzar means sixfold &c. Erub. 96ᵇ בש׳ it means twisted threads (yarn, which is not used for weaving). e.g. Exodus 26:31
שְׁזַר
- —Part. pass. שְׁזִיר. Targ. Ex. XXVI, 1, a. fr. (h. text משזר).—Targ. Y. Num. IV, 6 (h. text כליל תכלת).—Lam. R. to I, 1 רבתי (חד מאת׳ 2) [read:] שְׁזוֹר לי מיניה חוטין וכ׳ twist threads for me out of it (the sand), and I will mend it; (Bekh. 8ᵇ כרוכו לי מיניה גרדי).
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 5 distinct written forms H7806 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָשְׁזָ֑ר | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 26:31 | 7 |
| מָשְׁזָֽר | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 28:8 | 6 |
| מָשְׁזָ֗ר | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 26:1 | 4 |
| מָשְׁזָ֖ר | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 27:16 | 3 |
| מָשְׁזָ֔ר | Verb, Hophal, Participle Passive, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 38:9 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 18 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 21 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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