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# מֶשִׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4897

**silk** — used 2 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

silk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4897/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶ֫שִׁי: silk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4897/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a costly material for garments, according to Rabb. silk, (so NowArch. i. 124); whether this is based on actual tradition is dub. (etym. unknown);—abs. מ׳ Ez 16:13 (‖ שֵׁשׁ), מֶ֑שִׁי v 10 (‖ id.) Vid., further Thes Sm Da Berthol. 𝔊 τρίχαπτα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: silk (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 16:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.10/#tree)

וָאַלְבִּישֵׁ֣ךְ רִקְמָ֔ה וָאֶנְעֲלֵ֖ךְ תָּ֑חַשׁ וָאֶחְבְּשֵׁ֣ךְ בַּשֵּׁ֔שׁ וַאֲכַסֵּ֖ךְ מֶֽשִׁי׃

*Word for word:* and I clothed.you multicolored.material and I shod.you leather and I wrapped.your.head with.(the) fine linen and I covered.you silk

*JPS 1917:* I clothed thee also with richly woven work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I wound fine linen about thy head, and covered thee with silk.

[Ezekiel 16:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.13/#tree)

וַתַּעְדִּ֞י זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֗סֶף וּמַלְבּוּשֵׁךְ֙ שֵׁ֤שׁ וָמֶ֙שִׁי֙ וְרִקְמָ֔ה סֹ֧לֶת וּדְבַ֛שׁ וָשֶׁ֖מֶן אָכָ֑לְתְּ וַתִּ֙יפִי֙ בִּמְאֹ֣ד מְאֹ֔ד וַֽתִּצְלְחִ֖י לִמְלוּכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.adorned.yourself gold and silver and clothing your \[was\].fine.linen and silk and multicolored.material fine.flour and honey and oil you.ate and you.were.beautiful with muchness muchness and you.prospered into kingship

*JPS 1917:* Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and richly woven work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou didst wax exceeding beautiful, and thou wast meet for royal estate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4897.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4897/): 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).