Lexicon shasher: red color, vermilion Original Word: שָׁשַׁרPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shasher Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-shar') Short Definition: red NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionred color, vermilion NASB Translationbright red (1), vermilion (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ שָׁשֵׁר] noun [masculine] red colour, vermilion (etymology unknown); — vermilion, formerly gained from kermes insect ( vermiculus): מָשׁוֺחַ בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר Jeremiah 22:14 ( ᵐ5μίλτος, red ochre; ᵑ7 sinopis [from city Sinopis, whence the colour came Plin NH xxxv. [6] 13], compare Thatcher DB COLOURS Canney EB1D.); חֲקֻקִים בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר Ezekiel 23:14. [שָׁת], I. שֵׁת see שׁית. II. שֵׁת see שֵׁאת below I. [שׁאה]. III. שֵׁת see II. שׁתה.
Strong's vermillion Perhaps from the base of sharar in the sense of that of saruq; red ochre (from its piercing color) -- vermillion. see HEBREW sharar see HEBREW saruq |
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