Silk
מֶ֫שִׁיStrong’s H4897meshi (me-shi)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meshi is the Hebrew word usually translated “silk”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.”
Meaning
- A costly material for garmentperhaps silk
How it's translated
- silk 1
- and silk 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
מֶ֫שִׁי meshi · silk
1) a costly material for garment 1a) perhaps silk
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.