פִּשְׁתָּה
pishtâh · H6594 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Thing
- Oil lamp and wickHousehold67 verses
Meanings
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flax
Product of a plant of about a meter tall; its leaves are narrow and the flowers are bright blue with five petals; the seed capsule contains oil; after the plants have ripened they are uprooted and the stalks are left to dry for a while; they are then soaked, dried, and beaten to separate the fibers, which are then combed and woven into linen cloth
ExamplesExodus 9:31 (Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
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wick
A strip of cotton that, when placed in a lamp, draws up the oil on one side and is set alight on the other
ExamplesIsaiah 42:3 “A bent reed He will not break off And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isaiah 43:17 Who brings out the chariot and the horse, The army and the mighty man (They will lie down together and not rise again; They have been extinguished, and have gone out like a wick):
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֵּהֶהfaded, dim, faint 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָכָהto strike, to strike down 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גִּבְעֹלin bud 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- λίνον línon · G3043 · linen, linen garment, wick
- Greek λίνον (‘flax,’ by implication ‘linen’) renders Hebrew פִּשְׁתָּה, both terms sharing the same semantic range — from the flax plant itself to its processed fiber and finished linen textile — making them direct cross-linguistic equivalents.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Crops001003001003002
- פִּשְׁתָּה denotes the flax plant itself, as of the flax ruined in the bud by the plague of hail in Exodus 9:31.
- Professions001001003009
- This domain's connection to פִּשְׁתָּה is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of the flax plant or its wick rather than a profession.
- Cloth001002005003
- This domain's connection to פִּשְׁתָּה is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of the flax plant or a lamp's wick rather than finished cloth.
- Furnishings001003001001008
- The word also denotes a flax wick, as of the dimly burning wick the LORD will not extinguish in Isaiah 42:3, and the wick that goes out like the servants of Babylon in Isaiah 43:17.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6594. pishtah מִּשְׁתָּה noun feminine flax; — ׳פ: 1 growing Exo 9:31 (twice in…
Sources
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