International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
THRUMthrum: In Isaiah 38:12 the Revised Version (British and American) reads "He will cut me off from the loom," margin "thrum." "Thrum" is a technical term of weavers, denoting the threads of the warp hanging down in a loom, suiting dallah, "that which hangs down" (Songs 7:5, "hair"). A misinterpretation of "hanging down" is responsible for the King James' "pining sickness."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
2. (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
3. (n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
4. (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
5. (n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
6. (v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
7. (v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.
8. (v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
9. (v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
10. (v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
11. (v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
Strong's Hebrew
1803a. dallah -- hair, thrum... hair,
thrum. Transliteration: dallah Short Definition: locks. Word Origin from dalal
Definition hair,
thrum NASB Word Usage flowing locks (1), loom (1).
... /hebrew/1803a.htm - 5k 1803. dallah -- hair, thrum
... << 1802b, 1803. dallah. 1803a >>. hair, thrum. Transliteration: dallah Phonetic
Spelling: (dal-law') Short Definition: hair. hair, pining sickness, poorest sort ...
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5059. nagan -- to touch or play a stringed instrument
... instruments, melody, ministrel, player,. A primitive root; properly, to
thrum, ie Beat a tune with the fingers; expec. To play on ...
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