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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Linen

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

104exact KJV occurrences 86Old Testament 18New Testament 20books containing the word 10mapped Strong's IDs 90occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 41:42

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;

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 19:14

And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where linen appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8336
שֵׁשׁ

shêsh · shaysh

37 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble

Strong's KJV usage: × blue, fine (twined) linen, marble, silk.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 41:42Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:7

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HebrewH906
בַּד

bad · bad

23 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

flaxen thread or yarn; hence, a linen garment

Strong's KJV usage: linen.

Strong's first: Exodus 28:42Strong's last: Daniel 12:7

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HebrewH6593
פִּשְׁתֶּה

pishteh · pish-teh'

9 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

linen (i.e. the thread, as carded)

Strong's KJV usage: flax, linen.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Leviticus 13:47Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:18

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GreekG4616
σινδών

sindṓn · sin-done'

3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it)

Strong's KJV usage: :--(fine) linen (cloth).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 15:46Strong's last: Luke 23:53

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HebrewH330
אֵטוּן

ʼêṭûwn · ay-toon'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

properly, twisted (yarn), i.e. tapestry

Strong's KJV usage: fine linen.

Strong's first: Proverbs 7:16Strong's last: Proverbs 7:16

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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104 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Deuteronomy 22:11
H6593

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

1 Samuel 2:18
H906

But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:18
H906

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

2 Samuel 6:14
H906

And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

1 Kings 10:28
no direct Strong's tag

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

1 Kings 10:28
no direct Strong's tag

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

1 Chronicles 4:21
H948

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

1 Chronicles 15:27
H948

And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

1 Chronicles 15:27
H906

And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

2 Chronicles 1:16
no direct Strong's tag

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

2 Chronicles 1:16
no direct Strong's tag

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

2 Chronicles 2:14
H948

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

2 Chronicles 3:14
H948

And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

2 Chronicles 5:12
H948

Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

Esther 1:6
H948

Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

Esther 8:15
H948

And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

Proverbs 7:16
H330

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

Proverbs 31:24
H5466

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Isaiah 3:23
H5466

The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

Jeremiah 13:1
H6593

Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

Ezekiel 9:2
H906

And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

Ezekiel 9:3
H906

And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

Ezekiel 9:11
H906

And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

Ezekiel 10:2
H906

And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

Ezekiel 10:6
H906

And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

linen

LIN'EN, noun [Latin linun, flax, Gr. The sense is probably long, extended or smooth. In the latter sense, it would accord with Latin linio, lenio.]

1. Cloth made of flax or hemp.

2. An under garment.

LIN'EN, adjective [Latin lineus.]

1. Made of flax or hemp; as linen cloth; a linen stocking.

2. Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.

Fossil-linen, a kind of amianth, with soft, parallel, flexible fibers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.