Yarn

Yarn. The notice of yarn is contained in an extremely obscure passage in 1Ki 10:28; 2Ch 1:16. The Hebrew Received Text is questionable. Gesenius gives the sense of "number" as applying equally to the merchants and the horses: "A band of the king’s merchants bought a drove (of horses) at a price."

On 1Ki 10:28, see Linen. (See LINEN.)

Yarn. 1Ki 10:28; 2Ch 1:16, A. V. The Hebrew received text is obscure. The R. V. reads, "And the king’s merchants received them [the horses] in droves, each drove at a price."

YARN.—1. This is prob. the correct tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of ’çtûn (a word of doubtful etymology) in Pro 7:16. 2. In Eze 27:19 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘yarn’ is very doubtful (cf. RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] and art. Uzal). 3. In 1Ki 10:28 miqweh should be tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘drove’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), not ‘yarn’ (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ). See also Spinning and Weaving, 4 (b); Trade and Commerce, 4.

yarn. See LINEN; SPINNING; WEAVING.