Strong's Hebrew · H6785

צֶמֶר

tsemer · tseh'-mer

wool(-len).

Definition

wool

Derivation

from an unused root probably meaning to be shaggy;

Appears 16 times in Scripture

Psalms 147:16

He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

Judges 6:37

then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”

Leviticus 13:52

He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.

Leviticus 13:47

If any fabric is contaminated with mildew—any wool or linen garment,

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Leviticus 13:48

any weave or knit of linen or wool, or any article of leather—

Proverbs 31:13

She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

Deuteronomy 22:11

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

Leviticus 13:59

This is the law concerning a mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”

2 Kings 3:4

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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