Wool
עֲמַרStrong’s H6015amar (a-mar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Amar is the Aramaic word usually translated “like wool”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
Meaning
- Wool
How it's translated
- like wool 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
עֲמַר amar · wool
wool Aramaic of tse.mer (צֶ֫מֶר "wool" H6785)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wool” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOOL, noun
[G., Gr., soft; down; Latin, to pull off.]
- That species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur.
- Short thick hair.
- In botany, a sort of pubescence, or a clothing o dense curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.