Distaff
כִּישׁוֹרStrong’s H3601kishor (ki-shor)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kishor is the Hebrew word usually translated “on the distaff”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.”
Meaning
- Spindle-whorl, distaff
How it's translated
- on the distaff 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כִּישׁוֹר kishor · distaff
spindle-whorl, distaff
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “distaff” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISTAFF, noun
- The staff of a spinning-wheel, to which a bunch of flax or tow is tied, and from which the thread is drawn.“She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff” Proverbs 31:19
- Figuratively, a woman, or the female sex.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.