שָׁשַׁר
shâshar · H8350 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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bright red, vermilion
State in which an object has a brilliant red color
ExamplesEzekiel 23:14 “So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans drawn in bright red,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
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 lexemes are color terms denoting shades of red — vermilion and crimson/scarlet — making them near-synonyms describing similar hues.
- שָׁנִי shânîy · H8144 · scarlet
- 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.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Color002001001014
- This noun denotes a bright red pigment, as in Jeremiah 22:14's condemnation of paneling a house with cedar and painting it bright red.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8350. shasher [שָׁשֵׁר] noun [masculine] red colour, vermilion (etymology unknown); —…
[שָׁשֵׁר] noun [masculine] red colour, vermilion (etymology unknown); — vermilion, formerly gained from kermes insect (vermiculus): בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר מָשׁוֺחַ Jer 22:14 (ᵐ5μίλτος, red ochre; ᵑ7 sinopis [from city Sinopis, whence the colour came PlinNH xxxv. [6] 13], compare ThatcherDB COLOURS CanneyEB1D.); בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר חֲקֻקִים Eze 23:14.
[שָׁת], I. שֵׁת see שׁית.
II. שֵׁת see שֵׁאת below I. [שׁאה].
III. שֵׁת see II. שׁתה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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