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# פֵּשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6593

**flax** — used 16 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/1508/6593/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֵּ֫שֶׁת: n.f. flax, linen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6593/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Jos 2:6 flax, linen (√ dub.; NH פִּשְׁתָּן, Pun. Φοιστ; Löwp. 233);—sf. פִּשְׁתִּי Ho 2:7, 11; elsewhere pl. פִּשְׁתִּים Ju 15:14 +, cstr. פִּשְׁתֵּי Jos 2:6;— 1. flax, after gathering, פִּשְׁתֵּי הָעֵץ Jos 2:6 (JE, v. עֵץ 2 f); inflammable Ju 15:14 (sim.); as natural product (+ צֶמֶר) Ho 2:7, 11; as material, פְּתִיל פ׳ Ez 40:3; of various garments Je 13:1; Ez 44:17, 18(×2), + צֶמֶר Dt 22:11; Lv 13:47, 48, 52, 59 (P), cf. Pr 31:13; עֹבְדֵי פ׳ שְׂרִיקוֹת Is 19:9 (v. \[שָׂרִיק\]).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 2 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: of linen(s) (6); linen(s) (4); flax (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 22:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.11/#tree)

לֹ֤א תִלְבַּשׁ֙ שַֽׁעַטְנֵ֔ז צֶ֥מֶר וּפִשְׁתִּ֖ים יַחְדָּֽו׃ס

*Word for word:* not you.will.wear mixed.stuff wool and linen(s) together

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

[Isaiah 19:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.9/#tree)

וּבֹ֛שׁוּ עֹבְדֵ֥י פִשְׁתִּ֖ים שְׂרִיק֑וֹת וְאֹרְגִ֖ים חוֹרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.ashamed \[those.who\].work of.flax(es) combed and \[those.who\].weave white.cloth

*JPS 1917:* Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6593.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6593/): 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).