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Now 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.
Read in context →Which 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.
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nᵉʻôreth · neh-o'-reth
something shaken out, i.e. tow (as the refuse of flax)
Strong's KJV usage: tow.
Strong's first: Judges 16:9Strong's last: Isaiah 1:31
Open full H5296 profile →pishtâh · pish-taw'
flax; by implication, a wick
Strong's KJV usage: flax, tow.
Strong's first: Isaiah 43:17Strong's last: Isaiah 43:17
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And 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.
Which 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.
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TOW, verb transitive [Latin duco.] To drag, as a boat or ship, through the water by means of a rope. Towing is performed by another boat or ship, or by men on shore, or by horses. Boats on canals are usually towed by horses.
TOW, noun [Latin stupa.] The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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