Strong's #5296: n`oreth (pronounced neh-o'-reth)

from 5287; something shaken out, i.e. tow (as the refuse of flax):--tow.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ne‛ôreth

1) a strand of flax, tow (as shaken from flax when beaten)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5287

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Judges 16:9: "the withes, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength"
Isaiah 1:31: "And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together,"