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# שָׁשֵׁר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8350

**red colour** — used 2 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

red colour [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8350/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁשֵׁר: red colour, vermilion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8350/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] red colour, vermilion (etym. unknown);—vermilion, formerly gained from kermes insect (vermiculus): מָשׁוֹחַ בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר Je 22:14 (𝔊 μίλτος, red ochre; 𝔙 sinopis \[from city Sinopis, whence the colour came PlinNH xxxv. \[6\] 13\], cf. ThatcherDB colours CanneyEB 1D.); חֲקֻקִים בַּשָּׁשַׁ֑ר Ez 23:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: vermilion (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.14/#tree)

וַתּ֖וֹסֶף אֶל־תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ וַתֵּ֗רֶא אַנְשֵׁי֙ מְחֻקֶּ֣ה עַל־הַקִּ֔יר צַלְמֵ֣י כַשְׂדִּ֔ים חֲקֻקִ֖ים בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃

*Word for word:* and she.added to prostitution(s) her and she.saw men of.a.carved.\[thing\] on the wall the.images of.\[the\].Chaldeans inscribed with (the) vermilion

*JPS 1917:* And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

[Jeremiah 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.14/#tree)

הָאֹמֵ֗ר אֶבְנֶה־לִּי֙ בֵּ֣ית מִדּ֔וֹת וַעֲלִיּ֖וֹת מְרֻוָּחִ֑ים וְקָ֤רַֽע לוֹ֙ חַלּוֹנָ֔י וְסָפ֣וּן בָּאָ֔רֶז וּמָשׁ֖וֹחַ בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].says I.will.build for myself a.house of.size(s) and upper.rooms spacious and he.will.tear for himself windows my and paneled with (the) cedar and he.will.smear.\[it\] with (the) vermilion

*JPS 1917:* That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8350.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8350/): 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).