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Silk

Heb. demeshek, "damask," silk cloth manufactured at Damascus, Amos 3:12. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
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Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H4897, G4596
Hebrew
מֶ֫שִׁי
Greek
σηρικός · sērikos

Strong’s and original-language information

H4897

מֶ֫שִׁי

Glosses: silk

Indexed occurrences: 2

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G4596

σηρικός · sērikos

Glosses: silk

σιρικός (by assimilation of vowels, for σηρικός; see Mayser, 150; WH, Notes, 151), -ή, -όν (οἱ Σῆρες, a people of India from whom the ancients got the first silk), silk, silken; as subst.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Silk

Heb. demeshek, "damask," silk cloth manufactured at Damascus, Amos 3:12. A.V., "in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch;" R.V., "in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed" (marg., "in Damascus on a bed"). Heb. meshi, (Ezek. 16:10, 13, rendered "silk"). In Gen. 41:42 (marg. A.V.), Prov. 31:22 (R.V., "fine linen"), the word "silk" ought to be "fine linen." Silk was common in New Testament times (Rev. 18:12).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

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