- Original: בּוּץ - Transliteration: Buwts - Phonetic: boots - Definition: 1. byssus, a costly, fine white linen cloth made in Egypt - Origin: from an unused root (of the same form) meaning to bleach, i.e. (intransitive) be white - TWOT entry: 219 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From an unused root (of the same form) meaning to bleach that is (intransitively) be white; probably cotton (of some sort): - fine (white) linen. Total KJV Occurrences: 8 • linen, 8 1 Chronicles 4:21; 1 Chronicles 15:27; 2 Chronicles 2:14; 2 Chronicles 3:14; 2 Chronicles 5:12; Esther 1:6; Esther 8:15; Ezekiel 27:16