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# כִּישׁוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3601

**distaff** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

distaff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3601/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כִּישׁוֹר²: distaff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3601/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] distaff (etym. dub.; perhaps, if meaning correct, from כשׁר (cf. Sta§ 216 LagBN 182) = be straight, because it stands erect, De Str; 𝔖 ܟܰܫܺܝܪܽܘܬܳܐ industry; whence 𝔗 כּוּשְׁרָא, and likewise 𝔗 כּוּנְשְׁרָא, also Pr 3:8, (for Heb. שׁר), where Levy Wirbelsäule, Str ad loc. Jastr navel; but Str doubts etymological connexion with כישׁור);—only in יָדֶיהָ שִׁלְּחָה בַכִּישׁוֹ֑ר Pr 31:19 (‖ פָּֽלָךְ׃ whirl of spindle).—As above De Now Str RV SS al.; \> Ki AW Thes RobGes whirl of spindle (AV spindle); vid. פֶּלֶךְ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: distaff (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 31:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.19/#tree)

יָ֭דֶיהָ שִׁלְּחָ֣ה בַכִּישׁ֑וֹר וְ֝כַפֶּ֗יהָ תָּ֣מְכוּ פָֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* hands her she.stretches.out on the distaff and palms her they.grasp \[the\].spindle

*JPS 1917:* She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3601.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3601/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).