βύσσος
byssus
‘byssus’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1040 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, βυσσος (býssos) means “byssus.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Luke (100%). Found nowhere else but Luke 16:19. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1040 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fine linen 2×
- American Standard Version: Fine linen 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fine linen 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fine linen 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1040 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1040 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1040 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1040 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- byssus, a species of Egyptian flax
- linen made from byssus, very costly, delicate, soft, white and also of a yellow colour
Word origin
Derived from בוץ (bûwts) (H948) — fine linen.
Of hebrew origin [ H948 ]; white linen : - fine linen.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1040, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βυσσος appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 38 verses in 5 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 38
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 25:4 βύσσος
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 βύσσος
- Proverbs 31:22 βύσσος
- Isaiah 3:23 βύσσος
- Ezekiel 16:10 βύσσος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1040) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 25:4 βύσσος blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
- Exodus 26:1 βύσσος "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
- Exodus 26:31 βύσσος "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
- Exodus 26:36 βύσσος "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 27:9 βύσσος "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:16 βύσσος For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 27:18 βύσσος The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 28:5 βύσσος They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- Exodus 28:6 βύσσος "They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- Exodus 28:8 βύσσος The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 28:15 βύσσος "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
- Exodus 28:33 βύσσος On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
- Exodus 28:39 βύσσος You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 31:4 βύσσος to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
- Exodus 35:6 βύσσος blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
- Exodus 35:23 βύσσος Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.
- Exodus 35:25 βύσσος All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- Exodus 35:35 βύσσος He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
- Exodus 36:9 βύσσος The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
- Exodus 36:10 βύσσος He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.
- Exodus 36:12 βύσσος He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another.
- Exodus 36:15 βύσσος The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
- Exodus 36:31 βύσσος He made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tent,
- Exodus 36:35 βύσσος He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
- Exodus 36:36 βύσσος He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
- Exodus 37:3 βύσσος He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet; even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
- Exodus 37:5 βύσσος He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Exodus 37:7 βύσσος He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work them, at the two ends of the mercy seat;
- Exodus 37:14 βύσσος The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
- Exodus 37:16 βύσσος He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
- Exodus 37:21 βύσσος and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 βύσσος Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father's,
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 βύσσος He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
- Proverbs 31:22 βύσσος She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- Isaiah 3:23 βύσσος the hand-mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.
- Isaiah 19:9 βύσσος Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded.
- Ezekiel 16:10 βύσσος I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.
- Ezekiel 27:7 βύσσος Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1040) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
