Quick Definition
scarlet
Strong's Definition
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV Usage: crimson, scarlet (thread).
TWOT Reference: 2420a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁנִי (sha.ni) — scarlet. 1) scarlet, crimson 1a) properly, the insect 'coccus ilicis', the dried body of the female yielding colouring matter from which is made the dye used for cloth to colour it scarlet or crimson
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Color
scarlet = bright red colouring-matter ◄ from egg-clusters of a cochineal, collected from the leaves of Quercus coccifera; ► often used for dying cloth; ≈ regarded as valuable
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁנִי 42 n.[m.] scarlet (prop. coccus ilicis, which attaches itself to leaves and twigs of quercus coccifera; the dried body of female yields colouring matter) base