Word

βύσσινος

býssinos · G1039 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Flax (linen)Plants for weaving and building104 verses
LinenCloth manufacture89 verses

Meanings

cloth of fine linen

(Derivative of βύσσος ‘fine linen,’) Cloth consisting of fine linen

Examples
Revelation 18:12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; every kind of citron wood, every article of ivory, and every article made from very valuable wood, bronze, iron, and marble;
Revelation 18:16 saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls;
Revelation 19:8 It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 3 groups

καθαρόςclean 1
λαμπρόςbright 1
λευκόςwhite 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

περιβάλλωto clothe, to put on 2
ἐνδύωto put on, to clothe 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

δικαίωμαregulation 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γόμοςload 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 3 words

שֵׁשׁ shêsh · H8336 · six, sixty: שֵׁשׁ (shêsh, H8336) שֵׁשׁ denotes the fine linen material itself (noun), while βύσσινος (býssinos, G1039) βύσσινος is the adjectival form meaning 'made of fine linen'; both refer to the same high-quality textile concept with consistent translation equivalence across LXX contexts.
בּוּץ bûwts · H948 · fine linen: Hebrew בּוּץ (bûwts, H948) denotes the fine linen material itself, while Greek βύσσινος (býssinos, G1039) is the adjectival form meaning 'made of linen' or substantively 'a linen garment/cloth'; the LXX regularly renders the Hebrew material noun with the Greek adjective in attributive or substantive constructions.
בַּד bad · H906 · linen, apart, besides: Greek βύσσινος (býssinos, G1039) is the adjectival form "made of linen" corresponding to Hebrew בַּד (bad, H906) "linen" as the material noun; both denote fine linen fabric, with the Greek specifying the material composition of garments or cloths where the Hebrew names the fabric itself.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Cloth of fine linen6.167: Used of fine linen fabric, as of the fine linen among Babylon's traded cargo in Revelation 18:12 and 18:16 and the fine linen worn by the armies of heaven in Revelation 19:14.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βύσσος býssos · G1040 · fine linen · 1×βύσσινοςbýssinos · G1039

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βυσσίνῃ, βύσσινον (ἡ βύσσος, which see; cf. ἀκάνθινος, ἀμαράντινος), made of fine linen;…

βυσσίνῃ, βύσσινον (ἡ βύσσος, which see; cf. ἀκάνθινος, ἀμαράντινος), made of fine linen; neuter βύσσινον namely, ἱμάτιον (Winers Grammar, 591 (550); (Buttmann, 82 (72))) (a) fine linen (garment): Rev 18:12 (Rec. βύσσου), ; Rev 19:8, Rev 19:14 (WH marginal reading λευκοβυσσινον (for βύσσινον λευκόν)). (Gen 41:42; 1 Chr 15:21. Aeschylus, Herodotus, Euripides, Diodorus 1, 85; Plutarch, others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Cloth, Leather, and Objects Made of Such Materials5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0