Alabaster
שֵׁשׁStrong’s H8336shesh
Appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “fine linen” and “marble”. It appears in 37 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;”
Meaning
- Alabaster, similar stone, marble, material of pavement
- Something bleached white, byssus, linen, fine linen
How it's translated
- fine linen 17
- and fine linen 15
- the fine linen 3
- and in the fine linen 2
- marble 2
- and marble 1
- with fine linen 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 30
- Ezekiel 3
- Genesis 1
- Esther 1
- Proverbs 1
- Song of Solomon 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:4And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
- Exodus 26:1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 26:31And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
- Exodus 26:36And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
- Exodus 27:9And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:16And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁשׁ shesh · alabaster
alabaster, similar stone, marble, material of pavement
שֵׁשׁ shesh · linen
something bleached white, byssus, linen, fine linen
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “alabaster” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AL'ABASTER, noun
[Latin from Gr.]
All definitions and other forms of “alabaster”
AL'ABASTER, adjective
Made of alabaster or resembling it.
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.