Word

שָׁנִי

shânîy · H8144 · Hebrew · 42 occurrences

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Thing

Purple clothCloth manufacture96 verses

Meanings

scarlet

A bright red colouring-matter from egg-clusters of a cochineal, collected from the leaves of Quercus coccifera, often used for dying cloth and regarded as valuable

Examples
Genesis 38:28 Moreover, it took place while she was giving birth, that one baby put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”
Genesis 38:30 Afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand; and he was named Zerah.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 1 groups

תּוֹלָעworm 6

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 3 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 5
לָבַשׁto put on, to clothe, to wear 1
קָשַׁרto conspire, to bind 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָבַשׁto put on, to clothe, to wear 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָדhand, power 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as 2
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

30 occurrences in 3 groups

תּוֹלָעworm 27
חוּטthread 2
תִּקְוָהhope 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words

תּוֹלָע tôwlâʻ · H8438 · worm, maggot, crimson yarn: Both denote the color crimson or scarlet. תּוֹלָע (tôwlâʻ, H8438) also has the senses of worm and personal names, and שָׁנִי (shânîy, H8144) specifies a thread, but the core color sense overlaps and can substitute in context.
שָׁשַׁר shâshar · H8350 · bright red, vermilion: Both lexemes are Hebrew color terms within the red spectrum, overlapping in describing similar reddish hues — a near-synonym pairing in that narrow color sense.

In the other Testament 1 word

κόκκινος kókkinos · G2847 · scarlet, red, scarlet cloth: Greek κόκκινος renders the Hebrew color term שָׁנִי with direct semantic equivalence, both denoting crimson/scarlet coloration (often of fabric or thread).

Semantic domains 1 entry

Color002001001014: This noun denotes the color crimson or scarlet, as in Genesis 38:28's account of the midwife tying a scarlet thread on the hand of the twin who emerged first.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8144. shani שָׁנִי42 noun [masculine] scarlet (properly coccus ilicis, which attaches…

H8144. shani
שָׁנִי42 noun [masculine] scarlet (properly coccus ilicis, which attaches itself to leaves and twigs of quercus coccifera; the dried body of female yields colouring matter; compare TristrNHB 319 PostHast. DB SCARLET M'LeanEncy. Bib. id.); — usually הַשּׁ ׳חוּט הַזֶּה שָׁ ׳תִּקְוַת Jos 2:18 this cord of thread of scarlet, ׳ת ׳הַשּׁ Jos 2:21, הַשּׁ ׳חוּט Son 4:3 (simile of lips); so ׳(הַ)שּׁ alone Gen 38:28, Gen 38:30 (J), and as material of clothing 2Sa 1:24; Jer 4:30; Pro 31:21 (plural שָׁנִים; on order of ll. see Toy); plural also in simile Isa 1:18 if your sins are like scarlet (robes); elsewhere (P) (הַ)שּׁ ׳תּוֺלַעַת (see ׳ת) of material for curtain, veil, ephod, etc., Exo 25:4; Exo 26:1 Exo 26:24t. Exodus; ת ׳בֶּגֶד ׳שׁ Num 4:3 (see II. ׳ב 2); construct (הַ)תּ ׳שְׁנִי used in purification, Lev 14:4, Lev 14:6, Lev 14:49, Lev 14:51, Lev 14:52; Num 19:6.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Color42 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0