pish.tah denotes flax as a crop in bud and as material pictured as faint or extinguished.

The occurrences show flax both as an agricultural crop, in bud and ruined, and as an image in clauses about something faint or extinguished.

1. Flax as crop and extinguishable material · dominant

   In Exodus 9:31, two feminine singular absolute forms occur in the clause about the crop being ruined while it was in bud. The same form occurs in Isaiah 42:3 and Isaiah 43:17, where the APB renders clauses about “faint flax” not being quenched and foes being extinguished “like flax.”

   Exodus 9:31Isaiah 42:3Isaiah 43:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “flax” in all three verses, describing it as “in bud,” “faint,” and something extinguished or quenched. These phrases describe the clauses rather than establish separate lexical meanings.