Tow
נְעֹ֫רֶתStrong’s H5296neoret (ne-o-ret)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neoret is the Hebrew word usually translated “tow”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.”
Meaning
- A strand of flax, tow (as shaken from flax when beaten)
How it's translated
- tow 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נְעֹ֫רֶת neoret · tow
a strand of flax, tow (as shaken from flax when beaten)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOW, verb transitive
[Latin duco.]
To drag, as a boat or ship, through the water by means of a rope. Towing is performed by another boat or ship, or by men on shore, or by horses. Boats on canals are usually towed by horses.
All definitions and other forms of “tow”
TOW, noun
[Latin stupa.]
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
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.