Word Summary
sērikos: silk
Original Word: σηρικόςTransliteration: sērikos
Phonetic Spelling: (say-ree-kos')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: silk
Meaning: silk
Strong's Concordance
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.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.