Lexical Summary shasher: red color, vermilion Original Word: שָׁשַׁרTransliteration: shasher Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-shar') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: red color, vermilion Meaning: red color, vermilion Strong's Concordance 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H8350. shasher [שָׁשֵׁר] noun [masculine] red colour, vermilion (etymology unknown); — vermilion, formerly gained from kermes insect (vermiculus): בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר מָשׁוֺחַ Jeremiah 22:14 (ᵐ5μίλτος, red ochre; ᵑ7 sinopis [from city Sinopis, whence the colour came PlinNH xxxv. [6] 13], compare ThatcherDB COLOURS CanneyEB1D.); בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר חֲקֻקִים Ezekiel 23:14. [שָׁת], I. שֵׁת see שׁית. II. שֵׁת see שֵׁאת below I. [שׁאה]. III. שֵׁת see II. שׁתה. |
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