Bible dictionaries
Selvedge
What Bible dictionaries say about “Selvedge”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Selvedge - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
SELV'EDGE, n. The edgr of a cloth, where it is closed by complication the threads; a woven border, or border of the close works.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
sel'-vej (qatsah): The word occurs only in the description of the tabernacle (Ex 26:4; 36:11). It has reference to the ten curtains which overhung the boards of the sanctuary. Five of these formed one set and five another. These were "coupled" at the center by 50 loops of blue connected by "clasps" (which see) with 50 others on the opposite side. The "selvedge" (self-edge) is the extremity of the curtain in which the loops were.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915