STRONGS NUMBER H948


Word Summary
buts: byssus
Original Word: בּוּץ
Transliteration: buts
Phonetic Spelling: (boots)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: byssus
Meaning: cotton
Strong's Concordance
fine white linen

From an unused root (of the same form) meaning to bleach, i.e. (intransitive) be white; probably cotton (of some sort) -- fine (white) linen.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H948. buts

בֻּץ בּוּץ,noun [masculine] byssus (late), (Phoenician בוץ‎, Aramaic בּוּץ‎, ; √ dubious; Birch, WilkinsonEgyptians ii. 158 f. from Egyptian hbos,, clothe; see Say. Herodotii. 86; Thes from √ בוץ‎, but NöZMG 1875, 650; Armen., according to LagSemitic i. 72 and others) a fine white Egyptian linen, and cloth made of it, הַבֻּץ בֵּיתעֲֿבֹדַת מִשְׁמְּחוֺת1 Chronicles 4:21 families of the house of byssus-working; compare 2 Chronicles 2:13; בּוּץ בִּמְעִיל מְכֻרְבָּל1 Chronicles 15:27 clothed in a robe of byssus (but read rather as "" 2 Samuel 6:14 בְּכָלעֹֿז מְכַרְכֵּרwas dancing with all his might); compare בּ ׳תַּכְרִיךְEsther 8:15; בּוּץ מְלֻבָּשִׁים2 Chronicles 5:12; בוּץ חַבְלֵיEsther 1:6; 2 Chronicles 3:14 material of מָּרֹכֶת‎; article of trade Ezekiel 27:16 (strike out ᵐ5‎ Co). compare also שֵׁשׁ‎.

בוק‎ (= בקק‎).