שָׁשַׁר
shashar · vermilion
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8350 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shashar (שָׁשַׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “vermilion”.
Red paint.
How to say it
sha·shar
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A bright red paint.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 22:14
who says, “I will build for myself a house of great dimensions and spacious upper rooms, and cuts out for it its windows, paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.”
- Ezekiel 23:14
And she added to her prostitutions; and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans engraved in vermilion,