Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4897 - מֶשִׁי meshi ((costly material for garments) perhaps silk)

Original Word:	מֶשִׁי
Transliteration:	meshi
Definition:	(costly material for garments) perhaps silk
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(meh'-shee)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

silk

From mashah; silk (as drawn from the cocoon) -- silk.

see HEBREW mashah

Englishman's Concordance

1) a costly material for garment
1a) perhaps silk
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H4871
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1256

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֶ֫שִׁיnoun [masculine] a costly material for garments, according to Rabb silk, (so Now^{Archaeology i. 124}); whether this is based on actual tradition is dubious (etymology unknown); — absolute ׳מEzekiel 16:13 ("" שֵׁשׁ), מֶ֑שִׁיEzekiel 16:10 ("" id.) See, further Thes Sm Da Berthol. ᵐ5τρίχαπτα.

מֻשִׁי see מוּשִׁי.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4897. מֶ֫שִׁי (meshi) — 2 Occurrences

Ezekiel 16:10
HEB:בַּשֵּׁ֔שׁ וַאֲכַסֵּ֖ךְ מֶֽשִׁי׃
NAS: and covered you with silk.
KJV: and I covered thee with silk.
INT: fine and covered silk

Ezekiel 16:13
HEB:(שֵׁ֤שׁ ק) וָמֶ֙שִׁי֙ וְרִקְמָ֔ה סֹ֧לֶת
NAS: was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth.
KJV: [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work;
INT: and your dress blue silk and embroidered fine

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