bussas

Strong’sG1040

fine linen, cotton

stem buss-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

βύσσος, -οῦ, ἡ (cf. Heb. בּוּץ),

[in LXX chiefly for שֵׁשׁ, בּוּץ;]

byssus, a fine species of flax, also the linen made from it: Lk 16:19.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1040 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidboos'-sos

white linen

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King Jamesfine linen.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

βύσσος, ἡ,
flax, and the linen made from it, Refs 5th c.BC+; used of perennial flax, Linum angustifolium, grown in Elis, Refs 2nd c.AD+, and of Linum usitatissimum, ={λίνον Ἑβραίων}, Refs; also, in later writers, of Indian cotton, Gossypium herbaceum, Refs 2nd c.AD+; and of silk, τὰ Σηρικὰ ἔκ τινων φλοιῶν ξαινουένης βύσσου Refs 1st c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

fine linen1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	bussas	bussais
object accusative	bussan1×βύσσον	bussain
direct address vocative	bussar	bussair
of, belonging to genitive	bussau	bussaiu
to, for dative	bussa	bussai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

bussstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

bussa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

bussan“fine linen”objectaccusative singular1×

Luke 16:19… ate plousios, kai endiduskote porfuran kai bussan eufranorōntos kata hēmeran lamprōs.… rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous …