Palabra Original: βύσσος, ου, ἡ
Parte del Discurso: Sustantivo, femenino
Transliteración: bussos
Ortografía Fonética: (boos'-sos)
Definición: lino, biso (una especie de lino), también (la) Ropa (hecho de él).
RVR 1909 Número de Palabras: lino (2).
Original Word: βύσσος, ου, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: bussos
Phonetic Spelling: (boos'-sos)
Short Definition: fine linen, cotton
Definition: fine linen, cotton.

Cognate: 1040 býssos – fine linen, i.e. a very expensive (sought-after) form of linen – "a specific species of Egyptian flax or linen made from it that is very costly, delicate" (J. Thayer). See 1039 (byssinos).

STRONGS NT 1040: βύσσος

βύσσος, βύσσου, ἡ (Vanicek, Fremdwörter, under the word), byssus, a species of Egyptian flax (found also in India and Achaia) — or linen made from it — very costly, delicate, soft, white, and also of a yellow color (see respecting it Pollux, onomast. 50:7 c. 17 § 75): Luke 16:19; Revelation 18:12 Rec. (In the Sept. generally for שֵׁשׁ, also בּוּץ, cf. 1 Chronicles 15:27; 2 Chronicles 5:12; cf. Winers RWB under the word Baumwolle; (BB. DD., see under the words, and ). Josephus, Antiquities 3, 6, 1f; 3, 7, 2; Philostr. vit. Apoll. 2, 20 (p. 71, Olear. edition); on the flax of Achaia growing about Elis, cf. Pausanias, 5, 5, 2; 7, 21, 7.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

fine linen.

Of Hebrew origin (buwts); white linen -- fine linen.

see HEBREW buwts

Forms and Transliterations

βυούσης βυσσον βύσσον βύσσος βύσσου βύσσω βώλακας βώλους busson bysson býsson

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