'Thread' in the Bible

That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

This is the law about the leper's disease in the thread of wool or linen material, in clothing or in anything of skin, saying how it is to be judged clean or unclean.

Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.

And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;

And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

And he will make the house clean with the blood of the bird and the flowing water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread.

Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.

Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of bright red thread in the window from which you let us down; and get your father and mother and your brothers and all your family into the house;

Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.

And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.

And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

Give thought to the flowers: they do no work, they make no thread; and still I say to you, Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.