to weave: to interlace threads on a loom into cloth
This is the ordinary word for making cloth by crossing threads on a loom. Its most common form is the participle, "weaver," the name of the tradesman who does the work. In the instructions for the sacred tent and the priestly garments, the weaver's plain woven cloth stands beside the fancier work of two other craftsmen: the embroiderer who adds colored designs (רָקַם) and the skilled designer who works figures into the fabric (חָשַׁב). The thread the weaver uses is first made by the spinner (טָוָה).
One fixed comparison built on this word is easy to misread: a warrior's spear shaft "like a weaver's beam." The weaver's beam was the thick wooden bar of the loom, so the phrase simply means the shaft was massive. It describes Goliath's spear and the spears of other giants, and says nothing new about weaving itself.
The word also lends itself to vivid word pictures. Hezekiah, near death, says his life has been cut off as a weaver snips finished cloth from the loom. Isaiah pictures the wicked "weaving" a spider's web that can clothe no one. And Delilah weaves Samson's hair into her loom to try to trap him. In every case the underlying action is the same plain craft of interlacing threads.