Strong's #2339: chuwt (pronounced khoot)

from an unused root probably meaning to sew; a string; by implication, a measuring tape:--cord, fillet, line, thread.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chûṭ

1) a thread, cord, line, string

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to sew

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Genesis 14:23: "That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take"
Joshua 2:18: "this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring"
Judges 16:12: "And he broke them from off his arms like a thread."
1 Kings 7:15: "of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve"
Ecclesiastes 4:12: "him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
Song of Solomon 4:3: "Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate"
Jeremiah 52:21: "pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits"