Dict: smith - CORD

smith:

CORD - C>@ - The materials of which cord was made varied according to the strength required; the strongest rope was probably made of strips of camel hide, as still used by the Bedouins. The finer sorts were made of flax, kjv@Isaiah:19:9) and probably of reeds and rushes. In the New Testament the term is applied to the whip which our Saviour made, kjv@John:2:15) and to the ropes of a ship. kjv@Acts:27:32)