Lexicon demesheq: perhaps silk Original Word: דְּמֶ֫שֶׁקPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: demesheq Phonetic Spelling: (dem-eh'-shek) Short Definition: cover NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionperhaps silk NASB Translationcover (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs 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).
Strong's in Damascus By orthographical variation from Dammeseq; damask (as a fabric of Damascus) -- in Damascus. see HEBREW Dammeseq |
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