Strong’s H5296 · Hebrew
נְעֹרֶת
nᵉʻôreth · neh-o'-reth
Origin from נָעַר (H5287);
Meaning something shaken out, i.e. tow (as the refuse of flax)
In the King James Version tow.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 16:9Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Isaiah 1:31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.