G4596
σηρικός
silk
σιρικός (by assimilation of vowels, for σηρικός; see Mayser, 150; WH, Notes, 151), -ή, -όν (οἱ Σῆρες, a people of India from whom the ancients got the first silk), silk, silken; as subst., τὸ σ., silken fabric, silk: Rev.18:12 (cf. FlJ, B.J., vii, 5, 4).† (AS)
The KJV translates G4596 in the following manner:
silk (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
σηρικός — sērikós
σηρικός (Lachmann, the major edition, T WH σιρικός (cf. WH's Appendix, p. 151)), σηρικη, σηρικον (Σήρ, Σηρες, the Seres, a people of India (probably modern China; yet on the name cf. Pape, Eigennamen, under the word; Dict. of Geog., under the word Serica));
1. properly, pertaining to the Seres.
2. silken: τό σηρικον, silk, i. e. the fabric, silken garments. Rev 18:12. ((Strabo, Plutarch, Arrian, Lucian); ἐσθήσεσι σηρικαις, Josephus, b. j. 7, 5, 4.)
STRONGS NT 4596: σιρικόςσιρικός, see σηρικός.
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