Strong's #2805: chesheb (pronounced khay'-sheb)
from 2803; a belt or strap (as being interlaced):--curious girdle.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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chêsheb
1) girdle, band, ingenious work
1a) ingenious work - the name of the girdle or band of the ephod
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H2803
Usage:
This word is used 8 times:
Exodus 28:8: " And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold,"
Exodus 28:27: "toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod."
Exodus 28:28: "with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not"
Exodus 29:5: "and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:"
Exodus 39:5: " And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold,"
Exodus 39:20: "toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod."
Exodus 39:21: "with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not"
Leviticus 8:7: "the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound"