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# כַּרְמִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3758

**crimson** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

crimson [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3758/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּרְמִיל: crimson, carmine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3758/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] crimson, carmine, i.e. crimson stuff, cloth; late (prob. Pers. loan-word, and a deriv. from Pers. كِرْم worm, v. De ZLuth. Th. 1878, 593);—only 2 Ch 2:6, 13; 3:14 (in all + אַרְגָּמָן(-וָן), תְּכֵלֶת, 2:13; 3:14 + בּוּץ also); read perhaps also for כַּרְמֶל Ct 7:6 (‖ אַרְגָּוָן: so Gi, of hair formed spirally, like shell-fish; Gr, of glossy hair).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: crimson (3).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.14/#tree)

וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ אֶת־הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת תְּכֵ֥לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֖ן וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּב֑וּץ וַיַּ֥עַל עָלָ֖יו כְּרוּבִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made (et) the curtain violet and purple and crimson and fine.linen and he.put.up on it cherubim

*JPS 1917:* And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.

[2 Chronicles 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.6/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֡ה שְֽׁלַֽח־לִ֣י אִישׁ־חָכָ֡ם לַעֲשׂוֹת֩ בַּזָּהָ֨ב וּבַכֶּ֜סֶף וּבַנְּחֹ֣שֶׁת וּבַבַּרְזֶ֗ל וּבָֽאַרְגְּוָן֙ וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּתְכֵ֔לֶת וְיֹדֵ֖עַ לְפַתֵּ֣חַ פִּתּוּחִ֑ים עִם־הַֽחֲכָמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר עִמִּי֙ בִּֽיהוּדָ֣ה וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵכִ֖ין דָּוִ֥יד אָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and therefore send to me a.man skillful to work in (the) gold and in (the) silver and in (the) bronze and in (the) iron and in (the) purple and crimson and violet and.\[who\] knows to engrave engravings with the.skillful \[people\] who \[are\].with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom he.appointed David father my

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3758.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3758/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).