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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #1833 - דּוּמֶשֶׁק

Transliteration

dᵉmesheq

Phonetics

dem-eh'-shek

Origin

by orthographical variation from (H1834)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

433?

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

damask?, silk? (meaning uncertain)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Amos 1

BSB (1)

Amos 1

CSB (1)

Amos 1

ESV (1)

Amos 1

KJV (1)

Amos 1

LEB (1)

Amos 1

LSB (1)

Amos 1

N95 (1)

Amos 1

NAS (1)

Amos 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Amos 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

דְּמֶשֶׁק noun [masculine] ? Amos 3:12 עָ֑רֶשׂ׳וּבִד; punctuation & meaning dubious: all ancient Vrss דַּמֶּשֶׂק, and so Pusey Hoffm^{ZAW iii. 102} ('in Damascus on a couch') al., yet this hardly suitable in context; Thes Hi Ew Baer Ke Gunning RV and others follow ᵑ0, & render damask, silk, etc. (Arabic

, connection with city דַּמֶּשֶׂק (Arabic

) disputed; according to Frä^{40. 288} Arabic

is by metath. from

, & this a loan-word from Syriac

, & this from Greek μέταξα (Old Latin metaxa)).

דָּן see below דין.

דָּנִאֵל see below דין.

דנג (√ of following, meaning unknown).

List of Word Forms

וּבִדְמֶ֥שֶׁק ובדמשק ū·ḇiḏ·me·šeq ūḇiḏmešeq uvidMeshek