King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1833
Transliteration: demesheq
Phonetic Spelling: (dem-eh'-shek)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps silk
Meaning: perhaps silk
Word 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).