Strong's #6594: pishtah (pronounced pish-taw')

feminine of 6593; flax; by implication, a wick:--flax, tow.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pishtâh

1) flax

1a) flax (of the plant)

1b) as wick for lamp

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H6593

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Exodus 9:31: " And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled."
Exodus 9:31: "for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled."
Isaiah 42:3: "shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment"
Isaiah 43:17: "rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow."