Dictionary entry

σιρικός

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament with Strong's

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

(< οἱΣῆρες, 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).†