H1833

דְּמֶשֶׁק

de.me.sheqH:N-M

silk

damask?, silk? (meaning uncertain)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

דְּמֶשֶׁק noun [masculine] ? Amos 3:12 עָ֑רֶשׂ ׳וּבִד; punctuation & meaning dubious: all ancient Vrss דַּמֶּשֶׂק, and so Pusey HoffmZAW iii. 102 ('in Damascus on a couch') al., yet this hardly suitable in context; Thes Hi Ew Baer Ke Gunning RV and others follow ᵑ0, & render damask, silk, etc. (Arabic , connection with city דַּמֶּשֶׂק (Arabic ) disputed; according to Frä40. 288 Arabic is by metath. from , & this a loan-word from Syriac , & this from Greek μέταξα (Old Latin metaxa)).


דָּן see below דין.


דָּנִאֵל see below דין.


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