Definition

flaxen thread or yarn; hence, a linen garment

Etymology

perhaps from H909 (בָּדַד) (in the sense of divided fibres);

Word family

• בָּדַד bâdad

How the KJV renders it

• linen

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.