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Scarlet

תולעת, Gen. xxxviii, 28; This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Person
Strong’s
H8144, G2847
Hebrew
שָׁנִי
Greek
κόκκινος · kokkinos

Strong’s and original-language information

H8144

שָׁנִי

Glosses: scarlet

Indexed occurrences: 42

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G2847

κόκκινος · kokkinos

Glosses: scarlet

κόκκινος, -η, -ον (κόκκος, as used of the "berry" of the ilex coccifera, see DB, iv, 416), [in LXX for תּוֹלָע, תּוֹלָע, שָׁנִי, Exo. 25:4, Gen. 38:23, Isa.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Scarlet

This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians. This colour was early known (Gen. 38:28). It was one of the colours of the ephod (Ex. 28:6), the girdle (8), and the breastplate (15) of the high priest. It is also mentioned in various other connections (Josh. 2:18; 2 Sam. 1:24; Lam. 4:5; Nahum 2:3). A scarlet robe was in mockery placed on our Lord (Matt. 27:28; Luke 23:11). "Sins as scarlet" (Isa. 1:18), i.e., as scarlet robes "glaring and habitual." Scarlet and crimson were the firmest of dyes, and thus not easily washed out.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SCARLET

תולעת, Gen. xxxviii, 28; Exod.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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