Lexical Summary demesheq: perhaps silk Original Word: דְּמֶשֶׁקTransliteration: demesheq Phonetic Spelling: (dem-eh'-shek) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps silk Meaning: perhaps silk Strong's Concordance in Damascus By orthographical variation from Dammeseq; damask (as a fabric of Damascus) -- in Damascus. see HEBREW Dammeseq Brown-Driver-Briggs H1833. demesheq דְּמֶשֶׁק noun [masculine] ? Amos 3:12 ׳וּבִד עָ֑רֶשׂ; punctuation & meaning dubious: all ancient Vrss דַּמֶּשֶׂק, and so Pusey HoffmZAW 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 Frä40. 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). |
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