Brown-Driver-Briggs
נְעֹ֫רֶת noun feminine tow (as
shaken off from the flax when beaten; on form compare Ba
NB 64); — in simile
׳מְּתִילהַֿנּ Judges 16:9 a thread of tow (snapping from heat);
׳נ Isaiah 1:31 (figurative; as inflammable).
III. נער (√ of following; meaning unknown).