Lexical Summary shesh: byssus Original Word: שֵׁשׁTransliteration: shesh Phonetic Spelling: (shaysh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: byssus Meaning: bleached stuff, white linen, marble Strong's Concordance blue, fine twined linen, marble, silk Or (for alliteration with meshiy) shshiy {shesh-ee'}; for shayish; bleached stuff, i.e. White linen or (by analogy) marble -- X blue, fine ((twined)) linen, marble, silk. see HEBREW meshiy see HEBREW shayish Brown-Driver-Briggs H8336. shesh II. שֵׁשׁ noun masculine id.; — שׁ ׳עַמּוּדֵי Song of Solomon 5:15 (in figurative), Esther 1:6a, material of pavement 1:6b (see בַּ֫הַט). — I. שֵׁשׁ see שׁדשׁ. III. שֵׁשׁ noun masculineExodus 26:1 byssus (loan-word probably from Egyptian šen-suten Reinischap.DHMVOJ viii (1894), 7 Coptic šens, compare Coptic šent, weave; see M'LeanEncy.Bib. LINEN; on spinning, weaving, and wearing of linen in Egypt ErmanAegypten 594 ff.; Eng. Trans. 448 f.); — always absolute ׳שׁ (שׁשׁי Ezekiel 16:13 is error): — byssus, fine Egyptian linen ( בּוּץ, q. v., is later synonym), i.e. the linen thread (spun by women Exodus 35:25), and the material woven from it: used for garments Genesis 41:42 (E), Ezekiel 16:10, 13 (שׁשׁי, read שׁשׁ), Proverbs 31:22; for sail (in figurative of Tyre as ship) Ezekiel 27:7 (brought from Egypt); elsewhere P, of priestly vestments Exodus 28:5, 39 (twice in verse); 39:3, 27, 28 (twice in verse); also ׳שׁ מָשְׁזָר twisted linen 28:6, 8, 15; 39:2, 5, 8, 28, 29 + 39:24 (read ᵐ5 ⅏ מ ׳וְשֵׁשׁ Bae); ׳שׁ of hangings, etc., in tabernacle 25:4; 35:6, 23, 25, 35; 38:23, and so ׳שׁ מָשְׁזָר 26:1, 31, 36; 27:9, 16, 18; 36:8, 35, 37; 38:9, 16, 18. |
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