A.B.D
Arabic Bible Dictionary
Wool
Wool one of the first material used for making woven cloth (Leviticus
13=>47, 48, 52, 59; 19=>19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the
priests (Deuteronomy 18=>4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a garment
“of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together” (Deuteronomy 22=>11)
may, like some other laws of a similar character, have been intended to
express symbolically the separateness and simplicity of God’s covenant
people. The wool of Damascus, famous for its whiteness, was of great
repute in the Tyrian market (Ezekiel 27=>18).