בּוּץ
bûwts · H948 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- Flax (linen)Plants for weaving and building104 verses
- LinenCloth manufacture89 verses
Meanings
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fine linen
High quality woven material made from the stems of the flax plant, absorbing perspiration better than many other cloths, used for cloth and clothes, worn by the rich and by priests and Levites, and associated with quality, strength and coolness
Examples1 Chronicles 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;
1 Chronicles 15:27 Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen with all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the leader of the singing with the singers. David also wore an ephod of linen.
2 Chronicles 2:14 the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, violet, linen, and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which is assigned to him, to work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, your father David.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- חֶבֶלcord, rope, region 1
- מְעִילrobe 1
- עֲבֹדָהwork 1
- תַּכְרִיךְrobe 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 1 word
- βύσσινος býssinos · G1039 · cloth of fine linen
- Greek βύσσινος denotes material made-from-linen (adjectival form), while Hebrew בּוּץ denotes the linen material itself (substantive); these are direct translation equivalents representing the same underlying textile concept in aligned contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cloth001002005003
- The word denotes fine white linen, the priestly and royal fabric described in David's linen robe in 1 Chronicles 15:27 and the linen-workers' craft in 1 Chronicles 4:21, fitting this domain of woven cloth.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H948. buts בֻּץ בּוּץ, noun [masculine] byssus (late), (Phoenician בוץ, Aramaic בּוּץ, ;…
בֻּץ בּוּץ, noun [masculine] byssus (late), (Phoenician בוץ, Aramaic בּוּץ, ; √ dubious; Birch, WilkinsonEgyptians ii. 158 f. from Egyptian hbos,, clothe; see Say. Herodotii. 86; Thes from √ בוץ, but NöZMG 1875, 650; Armen., according to LagSemitic i. 72 and others) a fine white Egyptian linen, and cloth made of it, הַבֻּץ בֵּיתעֲֿבֹדַת מִשְׁמְּחוֺת 1Ch 4:21 families of the house of byssus-working; compare 2Ch 2:13; בּוּץ בִּמְעִיל מְכֻרְבָּל 1Ch 15:27 clothed in a robe of byssus (but read rather as || 2Sa 6:14 בְּכָלעֹֿז מְכַרְכֵּר was dancing with all his might); compare בּ ׳תַּכְרִיךְ Est 8:15; בּוּץ מְלֻבָּשִׁים2Ch 5:12; בוּץ חַבְלֵי Est 1:6; 2Ch 3:14 material of מָּרֹכֶת; article of trade Eze 27:16 (strike out ᵐ5 Co). compare also שֵׁשׁ.
בוק (= בקק).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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