Proverbs 31:22
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
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Silk
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Revelation 18:12
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
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מֶשִׁי
meshîy · meh'-shee
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
silk (as drawn from the cocoon)
Strong's KJV usage: silk.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 16:10Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:13
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sērikós · say-ree-kos'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
Seric, i.e. silken (neuter as noun, a silky fabric)
Strong's KJV usage: :--silk.
Strong's first: Revelation 18:12Strong's last: Revelation 18:12
Open full G4596 profile →שֵׁשׁ
shêsh · shaysh
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
Strong's KJV usage: × blue, fine (twined) linen, marble, silk.
Strong's first: Proverbs 31:22Strong's last: Proverbs 31:22
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H8336
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
H4897
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.
H4897
Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
G4596
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
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silk
SILK, noun
1. The fine soft thread produced by the insect called silk-worm or bombyx. That which we ordinarily call silk is a thread composed of several finer threads which the worm draws from its bowels, like the web of a spider, and with which the silk-worm envelopes itself, forming what is called a cocoon.
2. 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.
3. The filiform style of the female flower of maiz, which resembles real silk in fineness and softness. Virginia silk a plant of the genus Periploca, which climbs and winds about other plants, trees, etc.
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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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