MIXED CLOTH — wool and linen woven together, and one of the strangest words in the Hebrew Bible. It stands in two verses, and the second one is the first one's dictionary. ⭐ Leviticus 19:19 forbids beged kil'ayim sha'atnez, a garment of two kinds, sha'atnez — and stops, giving the word without its content. Deuteronomy 22:11 supplies exactly what Leviticus withheld: sha'atnez — wool and linen together. ⚠ The word is almost certainly not Hebrew at all. Its consonant shape is wrong for a native root, an Egyptian origin has been proposed and is not agreed, and the honest position is that nobody knows. ⚠ Not one of the thirteen witnesses this project follows prints the word; all thirteen translate the definition instead — 'a garment of divers sorts' (KJV, Geneva), 'a mingled stuff' (ASV), 'mixed stuff' (NWT 1984), «de mistura» (RV 1909). This translation prints it, because the verse itself glosses it one clause later. → first discussed at Deut 22:11