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title: בּוּץ — byssus · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בּוּץ (948), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: byssus. BDB 1906: byssus. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בּוּץ

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«בּוּץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **byssus** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 948 · **BDB:** בּוּץ

### Glosses

fine.linen (4); of.fine.linen (3); linen (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

byssus [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/948/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

byssus [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/948/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] byssus (late), (Ph. בוץ, Aramaic בּוּץ, ܒܘܽܨ; √ dub.; Birch, WilkinsonEgyptians ii. 158 f. from Egypt. hbos, clothe; v. Say Herodotii. 86; Thes from √ בוץ, but NöZMG 1875, 650; Armen., according to LagSem. i. 72 al.) a fine white Egyptian linen, and cloth made of it, מִשְׁפְּחוֹת בֵּית־עֲבֹדַת הַבֻּץ 1 Ch 4:21 families of the house of byssus-working; cf. 2 Ch 2:13; מְכֻרְבָּל בִּמְעִיל בּוּץ 1 Ch 15:27 clothed in a robe of byssus (but read rather as ‖ 2 S 6:14 מְכַרְכֵּר בְּכָל־עֹז was dancing with all his might); cf. תַּכְרִיךְ בּ׳ Est 8:15; מְלֻבָּשִׁים בּוּץ 2 Ch 5:12; חַבְלֵי בוּץ Est 1:6; 2 Ch 3:14 material of פָּרֹכֶת; article of trade Ez 27:16 (del. 𝔊 Co). Cf. also שֵׁשׁ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בּוּץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/948/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 3:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.14/)

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וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ אֶת־הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת תְּכֵ֥לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּב֑וּץ וַיַּ֥עַל עָלָ֖יו כְּרוּבִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made (et) the curtain violet and purple and crimson and fine.linen and he.put.up on it cherubim

*JPS 1917:* And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.

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[1 Chronicles 4:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.21/)

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בְּנֵי֙ שֵׁלָ֣ה בֶן־יְהוּדָ֔ה עֵ֚ר אֲבִ֣י לֵכָ֔ה וְלַעְדָּ֖ה אֲבִ֣י מָרֵשָׁ֑ה וּמִשְׁפְּח֛וֹת בֵּית־עֲבֹדַ֥ת הַבֻּ֖ץ לְבֵ֥ית אַשְׁבֵּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shelah the.son of.Judah \[were\].Er the.father of.Lecah and Laadah the.father of.Mareshah and the.clans of.the.house of.the.work of.(the) fine.linen of the.house of.Ashbea

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Ladah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

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