sirikem

Strong’sG4596

silken

stem sirik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

* σιρικός (by assimilation of vowels, for σηρικός; v. Mayser, 150; WH, Notes, 151), -ή, -όν

(< οἱ Σῆρες, a people of India from whom the ancients got the first silk),

silk, silken; as subst., τὸ σ., silken fabric, silk: Re 18:12 (cf. FlJ, B.J., vii, 5, 4).†

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

Strong’s G4596 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsay-ree-kos'

hence the name of the silk-worm); Seric, i.e. silken (neuter as noun, a silky fabric)

Fromfrom Σήρ (an Indian tribe from whom silk was procured;

King Jamessilk.

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

σηρῐκός, ή, όν,
(Σήρ) Seric, silken, ἐσθής Refs 2nd c.AD+; παραπετάσματα, σκευή, Refs 1st c.AD+; written σειρικός, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—as substantive, σηρικόν, τό, silken robe, silk, NT+1st c.BC+
2 σηρικά, τά, jujubes, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 σηρικόν (perhaps συρικόν), τό, a red pigment,Refs 5th c.BC+; Syricum pigmentum, quod Syrii Phoenices in Rubri maris litoribus colligunt, Refs 6th c.AD+

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.

silk1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	sirikos	sirikas	sirikem	sirikois	sirikais	sirikeim
object accusative	sirikon	sirikan		sirikoin	sirikain
direct address vocative	sirikor	sirikar		sirikoir	sirikair
of, belonging to genitive	sirikou	sirikau	sirikeu1×σιρικοῦ	sirikoiu	sirikaiu	sirikeiu
to, for dative	siriko	sirika	sirike	sirikoi	sirikai	sirikei

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

sirikstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

sirik 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

sirikeu“silk”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Revelation 18:12… margaritoiu kai bussineu kai porfurau kai sirikeu kai kokkineu, kai pantem xulem thuinem …… and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of …