פשתה

Hebrew

שדה פשתה

Etymology

Root
פ־שׁ־ת (p-sh-t)
2 terms

Derived from פֵּשֶׁת (péshet, “flax, linen”) +‎ ־ָה (-á), where the suffix may have been used to derive a singulative noun, compare Arabic ة (-ah) and the formation of words such as נְמָלָה (n'malá, “ant”) with their Arabic counterparts نَمْلَة (namla, “ant”) and نَمْل (naml, “ants”). The first element is cognate with Ugaritic 𐎔𐎘𐎚 (pṯt, “linen”).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /piʃˈta/

Noun

פִּשְׁתָּה • (pishtá) f (plural indefinite פִּשְׁתִּים, singular construct פִּשְׁתַּת־, plural construct פִּשְׁתֵּי־)

1. flax, linen
   • Tanach, Deuteronomy 22:11, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     לֹא תִלְבַּשׁ שַׁעַטְנֵז צֶמֶר וּפִשְׁתִּים יַחְדָּו׃

     Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

   • Tanach, Joshua 2:6, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְהִיא הֶעֱלָתַם הַגָּגָה וַתִּטְמְנֵם בְּפִשְׁתֵּי הָעֵץ הָעֲרֻכוֹת לָהּ עַל־הַגָּג׃

     But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof.

   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Kil'ayim 9:1:

     אֵין אָסוּר מִשּׁוּם כִּלְאַיִם אֶלָּא צֶמֶר וּפִשְׁתִּים.

     Nothing is forbidden on account of kilayim except [a mixture of] wool and linen.

2. (taxonomy) a plant of the genus Linum

Declension

Declension of פִּשְׁתָּה

	isolated forms		with possessive pronouns
Number:	State:	form	Person:	singular		plural
				m	f	m	f
singular	indefinite	פִּשְׁתָּה	first	פִּשְׁתָּתִי		פִּשְׁתָּתֵנוּ
	definite	הַפִּשְׁתָּה	second	פִּשְׁתָּתְךָ	פִּשְׁתָּתֵךְ	פִּשְׁתַּתְכֶם	פִּשְׁתַּתְכֶן
	construct	פִּשְׁתַּת־	third	פִּשְׁתָּתוֹ	פִּשְׁתָּתָהּ	פִּשְׁתָּתָם	פִּשְׁתָּתָן
plural	indefinite	פִּשְׁתִּים	first	פשתיי / פִּשְׁתַּי		פִּשְׁתֵּינוּ
	definite	הַפִּשְׁתִּים	second	פִּשְׁתֶּיךָ	פשתייך / פִּשְׁתַּיִךְ	פִּשְׁתֵּיכֶם	פִּשְׁתֵּיכֶן
	construct	פִּשְׁתֵּי־	third	פִּשְׁתָּיו	פִּשְׁתֶּיהָ	פִּשְׁתֵּיהֶם	פִּשְׁתֵּיהֶן

Derived terms

• פִּשְׁתָּן (pishtán)

References

• H6593 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “פִּשְׁתָּה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 535c
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1249b
• “פשתה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• פשתה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he