Flax
פֵּ֫שֶׁתStrong’s H6593pishteh (pish-teh)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pishteh is the Hebrew word usually translated “linen”, “flax my” and “among flax of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;”
Meaning
- Flax, linenfibre used as material for garments
How it's translated
- linen 6
- and flax my 2
- of the linen 1
- in the linen 1
- of linen 1
- and linen 1
- among flax of 1
- like flax 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Hosea 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:48Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;
- Leviticus 13:52He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
- Leviticus 13:59This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
- Deuteronomy 22:11Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
- Joshua 2:6But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
- Judges 15:14And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Hebrew dictionary
פֵּ֫שֶׁת pishteh · flax
1) flax, linen 1a) fibre used as material for garments
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flax” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLAX, noun
- A plant of the genus Linum, consisting of a single slender stalk, the skin or herl of which is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc.
- The skin or fibrous part of the plant when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
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.