בּוּץ
fine linen
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H948 appears — 8 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:21 הַ/בֻּ֖ץ ptcl def.art + n c ms The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
- 1 Chronicles 15:27 בּ֗וּץ n c ms David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 וּ/בַ/בּ֣וּץ conj + prep det + n c ms the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 וּ/ב֑וּץ conj + n c ms He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim thereon.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 בּ֗וּץ n c ms also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)
Esther 2 verses
- Esther 1:6 ב֣וּץ n c ms [There were hangings of] white [cloth], [of] green, and [of] blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.
- Esther 8:15 בּ֖וּץ n c ms Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.
Ezekiel 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.
The Hebrew noun בוץ centers on the idea of “fine linen.” Its earliest occurrence is 1 Chronicles 4:21. It appears 8 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to 2 Chronicles (38%), then 1 Chronicles and Esther. It clusters with ביצה, βυσσος and בץ under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H948 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 38%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 25%
- Esther 2 verses 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 88%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 13%
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 7×
- American Standard Version: Fine linen 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fine linen 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fine linen 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H948 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H948 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H948 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H948 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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 costly, fine white linen cloth made in Egypt
Word origin
n.[m.] byssus (late), (Ph. בוץ, Aramaic בּוּץ, ܒܘܽܨ; √ dub.; Birch, WilkinsonEgyptians ii. 158 f. from Egypt. hbos, clothe; v. Say Herodotii. 86; Thes from √ בוץ, but NöZMG 1875, 650; Armen., according to LagSem. i. 72 al.) a fine white Egyptian linen, and cloth made of it, מִשְׁפְּחוֹת בֵּית־עֲבֹדַת הַבֻּץ 1 Ch 4:21 families of the house of byssus-working; cf. 2 Ch 2:13; מְכֻרְבָּל בִּמְעִיל בּוּץ 1 Ch 15:27 clothed in a robe of byssus (but read rather as ‖ 2 S 6:14 מְכַרְכֵּר בְּכָל־עֹז was dancing with all his might); cf. תַּכְרִיךְ בּ׳ Est 8:15; מְלֻבָּשִׁים בּוּץ 2 Ch 5:12; חַבְלֵי בוּץ Est 1:6; 2 Ch 3:14 material of פָּרֹכֶת; article of trade Ez 27:16 (del. 𝔊 Co). Cf. also שֵׁשׁ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root (of the same form) meaning to bleach, i.e. (intransitive) be white
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בּוּץ I
- (cmp. בּוּעַ) to swell, bubble, burst forth, shine. Pilp. בִּצְבֵּץ.
בּוּץ II
- v. preced.) linen, byssus. Yoma VII, 1 (68ᵇ sq.), v. בַּד IV; a. e.
בּוּץ
- 1. same. Targ. Esth. VIII, 15. Targ. Gen. XLI, 42; a. e.—Pl. בּוּצִין. Targ. Job XVIII, 13 Ms. Var. (ed. בּוּצְנִין) linen garments (h. text בַּדֵּי).
- 2. (v. בּוּצִין) wick. Targ. Is. XLII, 3; XLIII, 17 (Var. בוצין; h. text פשתה).
- 3. swamp, v. בִּצָּא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H948 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בּ֗וּץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 15:27 | 2 |
| ב֣וּץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 1:6 | 1 |
| בּ֖וּץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 8:15 | 1 |
| הַ/בֻּ֖ץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 4:21 | 1 |
| וּ/ב֑וּץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 3:14 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/בּ֣וּץ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 2:14 | 1 |
| וּ/בוּץ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 27:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H948, 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.
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 6 — 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 verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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