Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
warp
Usage: warp, woven material
Shethi means “warp” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8359 שְׁתִי (shthiy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shthiy (sheth-ee') n-m. 1. a fixture, i.e. the warp in weaving [from H7896] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include warp. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shthiy (sheth-ee') n-m. 1. a fixture, i.e. the warp in weaving [from H7896] KJV: warp. Root(s): H7896
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warp
Usage: warp, woven material
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shthiy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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9 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8359.
Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8359, grouped by book.
Shethi (Strong's H8359) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "warp". shthiy (sheth-ee') n-m. 1. a fixture, i.e. the warp in weaving [from H7896]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's H8359 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8359 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as warp. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.