A plant about a meter tall with narrow leaves and bright blue flowers, known for its fibers used to make linen cloth and seeds that produce oil.
About Flax
Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is one of several plants of this genus. One type is widely grown both for the linseed oil from its seeds and the fine textile fibers from its stems. Flax is the oldest known textile fiber. Cloth woven from flax is called linen. Cotton appears only once in the Bible (Esther 1:6). There is no mention of any other fiber plant being grown in Egypt or Israel and the surrounding areas in biblical times. For this reason, experts think linen was the material used to make clothes other than woolen ones.
People also used linen for household items such as:
Key References
Make linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.
(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
All Scripture References (8)
Exodus (1)
(Now the flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;
Joshua (1)
(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
Judges (1)
When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
Proverbs (1)
She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
Isaiah (1)
The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.
Hosea (2)
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
Mark (1)
they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”