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# בּוּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H948

**byssus** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

byssus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/948/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּץ: byssus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/948/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] byssus (late), (Ph. בוץ, Aramaic בּוּץ, ܒܘܽܨ; √ dub.; Birch, WilkinsonEgyptians ii. 158 f. from Egypt. hbos, clothe; v. Say Herodotii. 86; Thes from √ בוץ, but NöZMG 1875, 650; Armen., according to LagSem. i. 72 al.) a fine white Egyptian linen, and cloth made of it, מִשְׁפְּחוֹת בֵּית־עֲבֹדַת הַבֻּץ 1 Ch 4:21 families of the house of byssus-working; cf. 2 Ch 2:13; מְכֻרְבָּל בִּמְעִיל בּוּץ 1 Ch 15:27 clothed in a robe of byssus (but read rather as ‖ 2 S 6:14 מְכַרְכֵּר בְּכָל־עֹז was dancing with all his might); cf. תַּכְרִיךְ בּ׳ Est 8:15; מְלֻבָּשִׁים בּוּץ 2 Ch 5:12; חַבְלֵי בוּץ Est 1:6; 2 Ch 3:14 material of פָּרֹכֶת; article of trade Ez 27:16 (del. 𝔊 Co). Cf. also שֵׁשׁ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fine linen (4); of fine linen (3); linen (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.14/#tree)

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ אֶת־הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת תְּכֵ֥לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּב֑וּץ וַיַּ֥עַל עָלָ֖יו כְּרוּבִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made (et) the curtain violet and purple and crimson and fine.linen and he.put.up on it cherubim

*JPS 1917:* And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.

[1 Chronicles 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.21/#tree)

בְּנֵי֙ שֵׁלָ֣ה בֶן־יְהוּדָ֔ה עֵ֚ר אֲבִ֣י לֵכָ֔ה וְלַעְדָּ֖ה אֲבִ֣י מָרֵשָׁ֑ה וּמִשְׁפְּח֛וֹת בֵּית־עֲבֹדַ֥ת הַבֻּ֖ץ לְבֵ֥ית אַשְׁבֵּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shelah the.son of.Judah \[were\].Er the.father of.Lecah and Laadah the.father of.Mareshah and the.clans of.the.house of.the.work of.(the) fine.linen of the.house of.Ashbea

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Ladah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/948.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/948/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).