Yarn
מַטְוֶהStrong’s H4299matveh (mat-veh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Matveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “that which was spun”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.”
Meaning
- That which is spun, yarn
How it's translated
- that which was spun 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַטְוֶה matveh · yarn
that which is spun, yarn
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “yarn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YARN, noun
- Spun wool; woolen thread; but it is applied also to other species of thread, as to cotton and linen.
- In rope-making, one of the threads of which a rope is composed.
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.