Lexical Summary shayish: alabaster Original Word: שַׁיִשׁTransliteration: shayish Phonetic Spelling: (shah'-yish) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: alabaster Meaning: white, marble Strong's Concordance Whiten, white, marbleFrom an unused root meaning to bleach, i.e. Whiten; white, i.e. Marble. See shesh. see HEBREW shesh Brown-Driver-Briggs H7893. shayish שַׁ֫יִשׁ noun [masculine] alabaster (foreign word? Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic שַׁיְשָׁא , perhaps Assyrian šaššu ); — ׳אַבְנֵישֿׁ 1 Chronicles 29:2 (material of temple); compare PatrickHast. DB MARBLE. |
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