Midvash

אֶרֶגʼereg

loom (Judges 16:4; Job 7:6)

Pronunciation: eh'-reg · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H708

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Judges 16:14 Then she tightened it with the loom shuttle. Again she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.
  • Job 7:6 “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).