Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

I suspect that the relationship to linen yarn comes by way of thinking about קוה QWH 

as a form of קו QAW (related, methinks, to גב GAB, 'high'), 'line', as in 1Ki. 7:23. 

A line is but a long piece of linen, a lint, from the latin linum, 'flax', or lana, 'wool'. 

A soft string tautly stretched between two points makes a straight (namely, extending continuously in the same direction without curving) line.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 30, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Chris Watts wrote:

Oh...that was an eye opener, I read a couple of other translations  

and the King James is the only one to say linen yarn.  Mmm, I wonder  

how on earth those 17th century geniuses arrived at that then?   

Thankyou Michael.

Chris Watts

Ireland