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     * flax.
       The word {pishteh,} flax, Mr. Parkhurst thinks may be derived
       from {pashat,} to strip, because the substance which we call
       flax is properly the filaments of the bark or rind of the
       vegetable, stripped off the stalks.  From time immemorial,
       Egypt was celebrated for the production and manufacture of
       flax; and hence the linen and fine linen of Egypt, so often
       spoken of in scripture and ancient authors.

     * the barley.
       The Hebrew {se┴ah,} barley, in Arabic {shair,} and
       {shairat,} is so called from its rough, bristly beard, with
       which the ears are covered and defended; from {sa(8372),} to
       stand on end as the hair of the head:  hence {se(8372),} the hair
       of the head.  So its Latin name {hordeum} is from {horreo,}
       to stand on end as the hair.  Dr. Pococke has observed that
       there is a double seed time and harvest in Egypt; rice, India
       wheat, and a grain called the corn of Damascus, are sown and
       reaped at a very different time from wheat, barley, and flax.
       The first are sown in March, before the overflowing of the
       Nile, and reaped about October; whereas the wheat and barley
       are sown in November and December, as soon as the Nile has
       gone off, and reaped before May.

     # Ru 1:22; 2:23; Am 4:9; Hab 3:17|