pishte · linen, flax

What it means

pishte (פִּשְׁתֶּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “linen, flax”.

Flax: the plant whose fibers are made into thread and cloth; linen.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The plant whose fiber is woven into fine cloth, and the cloth made from it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• linen ×12
• flax ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×2

• Leviticus 13:47

  And when a garment has a mark of leprosy, in a garment of wool or in a garment of linen,

• Leviticus 13:48

  or in the woven material or in the knitted material of linen or of wool, or in a skin or in any article made of skin,

• Leviticus 13:52

  He shall burn the garment, or the woven material or the knitted material of wool or of linen, or any article of skin in which the mark is, for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 13:59

  This is the instruction for a mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or in the woven material or in the knitted material, or in any article of skin, for declaring it clean or for declaring it unclean.”

• Deuteronomy 22:11

  You shall not put on mixed cloth, wool and linen together.

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

• Judges 15:14

  He came as far as Lehi, and the Philistines shouted in triumph to meet him. And the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned in fire, and his bonds melted from off his hands.

• Proverbs 31:13

  She seeks wool and flax, and works with the delight of her palms.

• Isaiah 19:9

  And those who work combed flax will be ashamed, and the weavers of white cloth.

• Jeremiah 13:1

  Thus YHWH said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your loins, but in water do not put it.”

• Ezekiel 40:3

  And he brought me there, and look, a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a linen cord in his hand and the measuring reed; and he was standing in the gate.

• Ezekiel 44:17

  And it shall be, when they enter the gates of the inner court, linen garments they shall put on, and no wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court and inside.

• Ezekiel 44:18

  Linen headdresses shall be on their heads, and linen undergarments shall be on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with sweat.

• Hosea 2:5

  For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said, “I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.”

• Hosea 2:9

  Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its appointed time, and I will snatch away my wool and my linen, given to cover her nakedness.

And 1 more times.