Reference: Wool
Easton
one of the first material used for making woven cloth (Le 13:47-48,52,59; 19:19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the priests (De 18:4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a garment "of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together" (De 22:11) may, like some other laws of a similar character, have been intended to express symbolically the separateness and simplicity of God's covenant people. The wool of Damascus, famous for its whiteness, was of great repute in the Tyrian market (Eze 27:18).
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And if there is any garment that has the plague of leprosy in it, in a wool garment or a linen garment, or in the warp or in the woof, of linen or of wool, or in a skin or in anything of skin,
And he shall burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin in which the plague is. For it is a fretting leprosy. It shall be burned in the fire.
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, either in the warp or woof or anything of skins, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.
You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with different kinds. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed. And you shall not allow clothing mixed of linen and wool to come on you.
You shall give him the first-fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
You shall not wear a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together.
Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Fausets
tsemer ("wool"), and gez ("fleece") meaning "shearing". Mesha's tribute to Israel (2Ki 3:4). A firstfruit to the priests (De 18:4). Symbolizing purity and whiteness (Isa 1:18, "shall be as wool" restored to its original undyed whiteness; Da 7:9; Re 1:14). Snow is compared to it (Ps 147:16).
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You shall give him the first-fruit of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep.
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams with the wool.
He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.
I watched until the thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days sat, whose robe was white as snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool. His throne was like flames of fire, and His wheels like burning fire.
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Hastings
Woollen stuffs were much used for clothes (Le 13:47 ff., Pr 31:13 etc.); mainly, however, for outer garments. For underwear, linen was preferred, as being cooler and cleaner. Wool, falling swiftly a prey to moths and larv
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And if there is any garment that has the plague of leprosy in it, in a wool garment or a linen garment,
then the priest shall command to take two clean live birds for him that is to be cleansed, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with different kinds. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed. And you shall not allow clothing mixed of linen and wool to come on you.
You shall not wear a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together.
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams with the wool.
He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands.
Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.
Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
I watched until the thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days sat, whose robe was white as snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool. His throne was like flames of fire, and His wheels like burning fire.
nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And His eyes were like a flame of fire.
Morish
The fleece of sheep and other animals. That of sheep was used for weaving into cloth, and is generally referred to as 'wool.' In the figurative language of Isa 1:18 undyed wool represents the state resulting from the removal of sin by Jehovah from His people; the sin being compared to that which had been dyed crimson. The law forbade the wearing of a garment made of linen and wool: it was an unnatural mixture, figurative of the working of the Spirit and the flesh in a Christian. Le 19:19; De 22:11.
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You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with different kinds. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed. And you shall not allow clothing mixed of linen and wool to come on you.
You shall not wear a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together.
Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.
Smith
was an article of the highest value among the Jews, as the staple material for the manufacture of clothing.
Le 13:47; De 22:11; Job 31:20; Pr 31:13; Eze 34:3; Ho 2:5
The importance of wool is incidentally shown by the notice that Mesha's tribute was paid in a certain number of rams "with the wool."
The wool of Damascus was highly prized in the mart of Tyre.
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And if there is any garment that has the plague of leprosy in it, in a wool garment or a linen garment,
You shall not wear a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together.
And Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock;
She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands.
Damascus was your merchant in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all riches, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, but you do not feed the flock.
For their mother has prostituted herself. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.