Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CHECKER-WORK; (NETWORK) chek'-er-wurk (sebhakhah): This was a kind of ornamentation used on the tops of the pillars of Jachin and Boaz before the porch of the Temple (1 Kings 7:17). Its exact form is not known. See TEMPLE. For "a broidered coat" (Exodus 28:4 the King James Version), the Revised Version (British and American) gives "a coat of checker work." See BROIDERED; EMBROIDERY.