Lexicon sérikos: silk. Original Word: σηρικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: sérikos Phonetic Spelling: (say-ree-kos') Short Definition: silken Definition: silken, silk. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originvariant reading for sirikos, q.v. NASB Translationsilk (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4596: σηρικόςσηρικός (Lachmann, the major edition, T WH σιρικός (cf. WH's Appendix, p. 151)), σηρικη, σηρικον ( Σήρ, Σηρες, the Seres, a people of India (probably modern China; yet on the name cf. Pape, Eigennamen, under the word; Dict. of Geog., under the word Serica)); 1. properly, pertaining to the Seres. 2. silken: τό σηρικον, silk, i. e. the fabric, silken garments. Revelation 18:12. ((Strabo, Plutarch, Arrian, Lucian); ἐσθήσεσι σηρικαις, Josephus, b. j. 7, 5, 4.) STRONGS NT 4596: σιρικόςσιρικός, see σηρικός.
Strong's silk. From Ser (an Indian tribe from whom silk was procured; hence the name of the silk-worm); Seric, i.e. Silken (neuter as noun, a silky fabric) -- silk. |
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