shesh · fine linen

What it means

shesh (שֵׁשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fine linen”.

High-quality white cloth. Also marble.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Delicate white flax cloth.
2. A white polished stone used to make palace columns.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fine linen ×29
• fine twisted linen ×9
• marble ×2
• alabaster ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×33
• Esther×2
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 41:42

  Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a chain of gold around his neck.

• Exodus 25:4

  blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, and goats' hair;

• Exodus 26:1

  The dwelling you shall make of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, you shall make them.

• Exodus 26:31

  You shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, it shall be made.

• Exodus 26:36

  You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 27:9

  You shall make the courtyard of the dwelling. For the southern side, toward the south, the courtyard shall have hangings of fine twisted linen, a hundred cubits long for the one side,

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 27:18

  The length of the courtyard shall be a hundred cubits, the width fifty all along, and the height five cubits, of fine twisted linen, and their bases of bronze.

• Exodus 28:5

  They shall take the gold, the blue, the purple, the scarlet yarn, and the fine linen.

• Exodus 28:6

  They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 28:8

  And the woven band of its ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen.

• Exodus 28:15

  You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skilled craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

• Exodus 28:39

  You shall weave the tunic of fine linen, and make a turban of fine linen, and a sash you shall make, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 35:6

  and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair;

• Exodus 35:23

  And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, brought them.

• Exodus 35:25

  And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they brought what they had spun: the blue and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

• Exodus 35:35

  He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of the engraver, and of the designer, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, doers of every work and devisers of designs.

• Exodus 36:8

  And all the wise of heart among those who did the work made the dwelling with ten curtains of twisted fine linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, he made them.

• Exodus 36:35

  And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; the work of a skilled craftsman, he made it with cherubim.

• Exodus 36:37

  And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer,

• Exodus 38:9

  And he made the courtyard: for the south side, the hangings of the courtyard were of twisted fine linen, a hundred cubits,

• Exodus 38:16

  All the hangings of the courtyard all around were of twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:23

  And with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a designer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.

• Exodus 39:2

  And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 39:5

  And the woven band of its ephod that was on it was of one piece with it, of the same workmanship, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Exodus 39:8

  And he made the breastpiece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 39:27

  And they made the tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons;

• Exodus 39:28

  and the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of twisted fine linen;

• Exodus 39:29

  and the sash of twisted fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of an embroiderer, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Esther 1:6

  There was white cloth, cotton and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to rings of silver and columns of marble; couches of gold and silver on a pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and dark stone.

• Proverbs 31:22

  Coverings she makes for herself; fine linen and purple are her clothing.

• Song of Songs 5:15

  His legs are pillars of alabaster set on bases of pure gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

• Ezekiel 16:10

  And I clothed you with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather, and I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

• Ezekiel 16:13

  And you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; fine flour and honey and oil you ate; and you became beautiful exceedingly, and you prospered to royalty.

• Ezekiel 27:7

  Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail, to serve you as a banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was your awning.

And 4 more times.