Original Word: σηρικός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: sérikos
Phonetic Spelling: (say-ree-kos')
Definition: silk
Usage: silken, silk.Word Origin
variant reading for sirikos, q.v.
NASB Translation
silk (1).

STRONGS NT 4596: σηρικός

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. Revelation 18:12. ((Strabo, Plutarch, Arrian, Lucian); ἐσθήσεσι σηρικαις, Josephus, b. j. 7, 5, 4.)

STRONGS NT 4596: σιρικόςσιρικός, see σηρικός.

silk.

From Ser (an Indian tribe from whom silk was procured; hence the name of the silk-worm); Seric, i.e. Silken (neuter as noun, a silky fabric) -- silk.

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