שֵׁשׁ
shêsh · shaysh
bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
Lexicon
Derivation: or (for alliteration with H4897 (מֶשִׁי)) שְׁשִׁי; for H7893 (שַׁיִשׁ);
bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] blue, fine (twined) linen, marble, silk.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to consume, to destroy
To consume, to destroy that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׁשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
41 occurrences · 41 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- linen20 · 48%
- of fine linen6 · 14%
- and fine linen5 · 12%
- of marble2 · 5%
- was of fine linen2 · 5%
- and of fine linen1 · 2%
- and in fine linen1 · 2%
- and in the fine linen1 · 2%
- marble1 · 2%
- is silk1 · 2%
- thee about with fine linen1 · 2%
- fine linen1 · 2%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.