Silk
דְּמֶשֶׁקStrong’s H1833demesheq (de-me-sheq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Demesheq is the Hebrew word usually translated “silk of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.”
Meaning
- Damask?, silk? (meaning uncertain)
How it's translated
- and with silk of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
דְּמֶשֶׁק demesheq · silk
damask?, silk? (meaning uncertain)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “silk” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SILK, noun
- The fine soft thread produced by the insect called silk-worm or bombyx.
- Cloth made of silk In this sense, the word has a plural, silks, denoting different sort and varieties, as black silk white silk colored silks.
- The filiform style of the female flower of maiz, which resembles real silk in fineness and softness.
All definitions and other forms of “silk”
SILK, adjective
Pertaining to silk; consisting of silk
SILK COTTEN-TREE, noun
A tree of the genus Bombax, growing to an immense size; a native of both the Indies.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.