Flax
פִּשְׁתָּהStrong’s H6594pishtah (pish-tah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pishtah is the Hebrew word usually translated “flax”, “wick” and “like wick”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.”
Meaning
- Flaxflax (of the plant) · as wick for lamp
How it's translated
- and the flax 2
- and a wick 1
- like wick 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 42:3A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
- Isaiah 43:17Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
Hebrew dictionary
פִּשְׁתָּה pishtah · flax
1) flax 1a) flax (of the plant) 1b) as wick for lamp
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.