A rare term for a luxurious fabric, traditionally understood as silk or a fine, costly material. Appears in Ezekiel 16 in God's description of adorning Jerusalem as His bride.
Ezekiel 16 contains one of the most intimate and devastating passages in Scripture. God describes how He found Jerusalem as an abandoned newborn infant, raised her, adorned her with fine fabrics including meshiy, made her a queen β and she used her beauty to become a harlot. The meshiy represents divine grace generously lavished: God gives His people beauty and abundance they did not earn. The tragedy is not that God failed but that Israel squandered extravagant grace. This mirrors the gospel: we are clothed in Christ's righteousness (divine meshiy), and called to be faithful to our Husband.