King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8350
Transliteration: shasher
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-shar')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: red color, vermilion
Meaning: red color, vermilion
Word 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.