Quick Definition
of fine linen, cotton
Strong's Definition
made of linen (neuter a linen cloth)
Derivation: from G1040 (βύσσος);
KJV Usage: fine linen
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βύσσινος, βυσσίνῃ, βύσσινον (ἡ βύσσος, which see; cf. ἀκάνθινος, ἀμαράντινος), made of fine linen; neuter βύσσινον namely, ἱμάτιον (Winers Grammar, 591 (550); (Buttmann, 82 (72))) (a) fine linen (garment): Rev_18:12 (Rec. βύσσου), ; (WH marginal reading λευκοβυσσινον (for βύσσινον λευκόν)). (Gen_41:42; 1Ch_15:21. Aeschylus, Herodotus, Euripides, Diodorus 1, 85; Plutarch, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βύσσινος byssinos 5x
made of fine linen or fine cotton, Rev_18:16 ; Rev_18:8 (2x), 14
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βύσσινος , -η , -ον
( < βύσυος )
[in LXX chiefly for H8336 , H948 , etc.;]
made of βύσσος ,
fine linen: Rev_18:12 ; Rev_18:16 ; Rev_19:8 ; Rev_19:14 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βύσσινος [page 119]
The manufacture of this famous material (τὰ βύσσινα , with or without ὀθόνια ) seems to have been a Government monopoly in Egypt, and it was carried on under the direction of the priests in the temples, which were hives of industry as well as of devotion. The output of these early ecclesiastics ranged from lawn to beer, as we see from P Eleph 27a .13 (B.C. 225 4) With the editor s note and P Lond 1177 .51 (A.D. 113) (= III. p. 182). See also for the linen monopoly Wilcken Ostr. i. p. 266 ff. and Dittenberger s note to OGIS 90 .17 (the Rosetta Stone B.C. 196) τῶν τ᾽ εἰς τὸ βασιλικὸν συντελουμένων ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς βυσσίνων ὀθονίων ἀπέλυσεν τὰ δύο μέρη .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
βύσσινος "made of βύσσος, σινδών β. a fine linen bandage, used for mummy-cloths,", Hdt. ; for wounds, id=Hdt. ; β. πέπλοι Aesch
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
βύσσινος, -η, -ον
(βύσσος), [in LXX chiefly for שֵׁשׁ, בּוּץ, etc. ;]
made of βύσσος, fine linen: Rev.18:12, 16 19:8, 14.†
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