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דְּמֶשֶׁק

de.me.sheq

silk

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Strong’s H1833Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

silk of1

In the text

Amos 3:12וּבִדְמֶשֶׁק
This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

דְּמֶשֶׁק n.[m.]? Am 3:12; punct. & mng. dub. damask, silk, etc.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.