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Strong's #948: buwts (pronounced boots)

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 Hebrew Lexicon:

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bûts

1) byssus, a costly, fine white linen cloth made in Egypt

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root (of the same form) meaning to bleach, i.e. (intransitive) be white



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

1 Chronicles 4:21: "and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,"
1 Chronicles 15:27: "And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving,"
2 Chronicles 3:14: "of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon."
2 Chronicles 5:12: "with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps,"
Esther 1:6: "and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings"
Esther 8:15: "and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and the city of Shushan"
Ezekiel 27:16: "in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate."









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