“flax” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word flax appears 12 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 11 matching verses are shown below.
- Exodus 9:31 The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;
- Josue 2:6 But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.
- Judges 15:14 Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.
- Proverbs 31:13 She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.
- Isaias 19:9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax, combing and weaving fine linen.
- Isaias 42:3 The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
- Isaias 43:17 Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.
- Ezechiel 40:3 And he brought me in thither, and behold a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gate.
- Osee 2:5 For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.
- Osee 2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.
- Matthew 12:20 The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.