צֶמֶר
tsemer · tseh'-mer
wool
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root probably meaning to be shaggy;
wool
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: wool(-len).
Letters
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to pursue the straight path › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest
To pursue the straight path of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of צֶמֶר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- wool2 · 13%
- my wool2 · 13%
- is in, whether it be a woollen1 · 6%
- or of woollen1 · 6%
- in woollen1 · 6%
- of woollen1 · 6%
- as of woollen1 · 6%
- of wool1 · 6%
- with the wool1 · 6%
- like wool1 · 6%
- they shall be as wool1 · 6%
- them like wool1 · 6%
- you with the wool1 · 6%
- and no wool1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.