STRONGS NUMBER H7660


Word Summary
shabats: probably to weave in checker (or plaited) work
Original Word: שָׁבַץ
Transliteration: shabats
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-bats')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: probably to weave in checker (or plaited) work
Meaning: to interweave, threads in squares, to inchase gems in gold
Strong's Concordance
embroider, set

A primitive root; to interweave (colored) threads in squares; by implication (of reticulation) to inchase gems in gold -- embroider, set.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7660. shabats

[שָׁבַץ‎] verb Pi`el probably weave in chequer or plaited work (Late Hebrew שָׁבַץornament a vessel with a pattern; Syriac (Lexicons) immiscuit, commixtio: see also LagBN 143); —

Pi`el Perfect2masculine singular וְשִׁבַּצְתָּ֫Exodus 28:39 (P), and thou shalt chequer (or plait) the tunic (in) byssus.

Pu`al Participle masculine plural זָהָב מְשֻׁבָּצִיםExodus 28:20 (P), inwoven (i.e. set in a chequered or plaited mounting) with gold (-thread) shall they be (of gems).