STRONGS NUMBER H8162


Word Summary
shaatnez: mixed stuff
Original Word: שַׁעַטְנֵז
Transliteration: 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

שַׁעַטְנֵזnoun 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]).