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# נְעֹרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5296

**tow** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5296/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְעֹ֫רֶת: n.f. tow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5296/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tow (as shaken off from the flax when beaten; on form cf. BaNB 64);—in sim. פְּתִיל־הַנּ׳ Ju 16:9 a thread of tow (snapping from heat); נ׳ Is 1:31 (fig.; as inflammable).

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 1:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.31/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה הֶחָסֹן֙ לִנְעֹ֔רֶת וּפֹעֲל֖וֹ לְנִיצ֑וֹץ וּבָעֲר֧וּ שְׁנֵיהֶ֛ם יַחְדָּ֖ו וְאֵ֥ין מְכַבֶּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.will.become the.strong \[person\] (into) tow and work his \[will become\].(into).a.spark and they.will.burn both of.them together and there.\[will\].not.\[be\] \[one.who\].extinguishes

*JPS 1917:* And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

[Judges 16:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.9/#tree)

וְהָאֹרֵ֗ב יֹשֵׁ֥ב לָהּ֙ בַּחֶ֔דֶר וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים עָלֶ֖יךָ שִׁמְשׁ֑וֹן וַיְנַתֵּק֙ אֶת־הַיְתָרִ֔ים כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יִנָּתֵ֤ק פְּתִֽיל־הַנְּעֹ֙רֶת֙ בַּהֲרִיח֣וֹ אֵ֔שׁ וְלֹ֥א נוֹדַ֖ע כֹּחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the ambusher \[was\].sitting for her in the chamber and she.said to him \[the\].Philistines \[are\].on you O.Samson and he.tore.apart (et) the cords just as it.is.torn.apart (the).cord of.(the) tow when smells it fire and not it.was.known strength his

*JPS 1917:* Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he broke the bowstrings as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5296.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5296/): 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).