אֵטוּן

בּוּץ bûwts · H948 · fine linen

The most common Hebrew term for fine linen, used extensively for priestly garments and luxury textiles; functionally interchangeable with אֵטוּן as a designation for high-quality linen fabric.

שֵׁשׁ shêsh · H8336 · six, sixty

Another Hebrew term for fine linen, particularly associated with Egyptian linen and used for priestly vestments; overlaps semantically with אֵטוּן as a term for quality linen material.

βύσσος býssos · G1040 · fine linen

Greek translation-equivalent for fine linen, the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew fine linen terms, widely used for high-quality linen garments in both biblical contexts.

σινδών sindṓn · G4616 · linen cloth

Greek term for fine linen cloth, often used for burial shrouds and quality linen garments; a plausible translation equivalent though βύσσος is more commonly associated with the finest grades.

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אֵטוּן names fine linen, the colored Egyptian linens spread as coverings in the Proverbs description of a seductress's couch.

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.