hebrew #1833 - דְּמֶשֶׁק demesheq (perhaps silk)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance in Damascus By orthographical variation from Dammeseq; damask (as a fabric of Damascus) -- in Damascus. see HEBREW Dammeseq Englishman's Concordance 1) damask?, silk? (meaning uncertain) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: by orthographical variation from H1834 Same Word by TWOT Number: 433? Brown-Driver-Briggsדְּמֶשֶׁקnoun [masculine] ? Amos 3:12עָ֑רֶשׂ׳וּבִד; 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). Englishman's Concordance (References) |