Lexicon shaatnez: mixed stuff Original Word: שַׁעַטְנֵזPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shaatnez Phonetic Spelling: (shah-at-naze') Short Definition: mixed NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originperhaps of foreign origin Definitionmixed stuff NASB Translationmaterial mixed (1), material mixed together (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שַׁעַטְנֵז noun masculine mixed stuff (perhaps of Egyptian origin; Kn derives from Coptic saht, woven, + nudj, false (Peyron Lex 224. 133), and thinks originally שַׁעַטְנֹז; ᵐ5 has κίβδηλος spurious); — a kind of cloth forbidden for garments; defined Deuteronomy 22:11 by צֶמֶר וּפִשְׁתִּים יַחְדָּו, and Leviticus 19:19 (H) by כִּלְאַיִם. שֵׁעִיר see שֵׂעִיר. I. שׁעל (√of following; Late Hebrew שַׁעַל, deep, depth, of sea; Aramaic שְׁעוֺלָא, שָׁעֳלָא,  = Biblical Hebrew [שֹׁעַל]).
Strong's garment of divers sorts, linen and wollen Probably of foreign derivation; linsey- woolsey, i.e. Cloth of linen and wool carded and spun together -- garment of divers sorts, linen and wollen. |
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