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 when there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, -- in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, of linen or of wool, or in a skin, or in any work of skin,
And he hath burnt the garment, or the warp, or the woof, in wool or in linen, or any vessel of skin in which the plague is; for it is a fretting leprosy; with fire it is burnt.
This is the law of a plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or of linen, or of the warp or of the woof, or of any vessel of skin, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.'
My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender with diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.
the first of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock, thou dost give to him;
'Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
Damascus is thy merchant, For the abundance of thy works, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For 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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the first of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock, thou dost give to him;
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and he rendered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with wool,
Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow is white, and the hair of his head is as pure wool, His throne flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.
and his head and hairs white, as if white wool -- as snow, and his eyes as 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 when there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, -- in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen,
and the priest hath commanded, and he hath taken for him who is to be cleansed, two clean living birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender with diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.
'Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and he rendered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with wool,
Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.
She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.
Damascus is thy merchant, For the abundance of thy works, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For wine of Helbon, and white wool.
I was seeing till that thrones have been thrown down, and the Ancient of Days is seated, His garment as snow is white, and the hair of his head is as pure wool, His throne flames of fire, its wheels burning fire.
neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;
and his head and hairs white, as if white wool -- as snow, and his eyes as 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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My statutes ye do keep: thy cattle thou dost not cause to gender with diverse kinds; thy field thou dost not sow with diverse kinds, and a garment of diverse kinds, shaatnez, doth not go up upon thee.
'Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
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 when there is in any garment a plague of leprosy, -- in a garment of wool, or in a garment of linen,
'Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
And Jehoram son of Ahab hath reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigneth twelve years,
If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,
She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.
Damascus is thy merchant, For the abundance of thy works, Because of the abundance of all wealth, For wine of Helbon, and white wool.
The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.
For gone a-whoring hath their mother, Acted shamefully hath their conceiver, For she hath said, I go after my lovers, Those giving my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.