Lexical Summary shaatnez: mixed stuff Original Word: שַׁעַטְנֵזTransliteration: shaatnez Phonetic Spelling: (shah-at-naze') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: mixed stuff Meaning: linsey-woolsey Strong's Concordance 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. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8162. shaatnez שַׁעַטְנֵז noun masculine mixed stuff (perhaps of Egyptian origin; Kn derives from Coptic saht, woven, + nudj, false (PeyronLex 224. 133), and thinks originally שַׁעַטְנֹז; ᵐ5 has κίβδηλος spurious); — a kind of cloth forbidden for garments; defined Deuteronomy 22:11 by יַחְדָּו וּפִשְׁתִּים צֶמֶר, and Leviticus 19:19 (H) by כִּלְאַיִם. שֵׁעִיר see שֵׂעִיר. I. שׁעל (√of following; Late Hebrew שַׁעַל, deep, depth, of sea; Aramaic שָׁעֳלָא שְׁעוֺלָא,, = Biblical Hebrew [שֹׁעַל]). |
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