Strong’s H6594 · Hebrew
פִּשְׁתָּה
pishtâh · pish-taw'
Origin feminine of פִּשְׁתֶּה (H6593);
Meaning flax; by implication, a wick
In the King James Version flax, tow.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 9:31And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
- 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.
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.