Wool
עֲמַרStrong’s H6785amar (a-mar)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amar is the Hebrew word usually translated “wool”, “like wool” and “wool my”. It appears in 16 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
- Wool
How it's translated
- wool 7
- like wool 2
- wool my 2
- and of the wool 1
- in the wool 1
- and like wool 1
- and wool of 1
- the wool 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Hosea 2
- Deuteronomy 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.
- Judges 6:37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
- 2 Kings 3:4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.