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# פִּשְׁתָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6594

**flax** — used 4 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

flax [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6594/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּשְׁתָּה: n.f. flax [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6594/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. flax;—פ׳: growing Ex 9:31(×2) (J). = wick Is 42:3; 43:17 (in sim.).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: flax (2); a wick (1); wick (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.3/#tree)

קָנֶ֤ה רָצוּץ֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁבּ֔וֹר וּפִשְׁתָּ֥ה כֵהָ֖ה לֹ֣א יְכַבֶּ֑נָּה לֶאֱמֶ֖ת יוֹצִ֥יא מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

*Word for word:* a.reed crushed not he.will.break and a.wick dim not he will.extinguish.it to faithfulness he.will.bring.forth justice

*JPS 1917:* A bruised reed shall he not break, and the dimly burning wick shall he not quench; he shall make the right to go forth according to the truth.

[Exodus 9:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.9.31/#tree)

וְהַפִּשְׁתָּ֥ה וְהַשְּׂעֹרָ֖ה נֻכָּ֑תָה כִּ֤י הַשְּׂעֹרָה֙ אָבִ֔יב וְהַפִּשְׁתָּ֖ה גִּבְעֹֽל׃

*Word for word:* and the flax and the barley it.was.struck (dm) the barley \[was\].young.barley.ear\[s\] and the flax \[was\].bud

*JPS 1917:* And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6594.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6594/): 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).