King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7893
Transliteration: shayish
Phonetic Spelling: (shah'-yish)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: alabaster
Meaning: white, marble
Word Summary
shayish: alabaster
Original Word: שַׁיִשׁTransliteration: shayish
Phonetic Spelling: (shah'-yish)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: alabaster
Meaning: white, marble
Strong's Concordance
Whiten, white, marbleFrom an unused root meaning to bleach, i.e. Whiten; white, i.e. Marble. See shesh.
see HEBREW shesh
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7893. shayish
שַׁ֫יִשׁ noun [masculine] alabaster (foreign word? Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic שַׁיְשָׁא , perhaps Assyrian šaššu ); — ׳אַבְנֵישֿׁ 1 Chronicles 29:2 (material of temple); compare PatrickHast. DB MARBLE.