tsemer · wool

What it means

tsemer (צֶמֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wool”.

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 thick hair of the sheep, which is sheared and spun for weaving.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• 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.

• Judges 6:37

  look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and on all the land dryness, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• 2 Kings 3:4

  Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep breeder, and he delivered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand rams with their wool.

• Psalms 147:16

  He gives snow like wool; frost like ashes he scatters.

• Proverbs 31:13

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

• Isaiah 1:18

  Come now, and let us argue it out, says YHWH. If your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.

• Isaiah 51:8

  For like a garment the moth will eat them, and like wool the worm will eat them; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generations of generations.”

• Ezekiel 27:18

  Damascus was your merchant in the abundance of your works, because of the abundance of all wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

• Ezekiel 34:3

  The fat you eat, and with the wool you clothe yourselves; the fattened you butcher; the flock you do not feed.

• 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.

• 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.