karmil · crimson

What it means

karmil (כַּרְמִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crimson”.

An intense red color, and cloth dyed with it. A word of Chronicles; it corresponds to what Exodus calls "scarlet."

How to say it

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

1. Deep red; cloth of that color.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles 2:7

  So now send me a wise man to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, with the wise men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared.

• 2 Chronicles 2:14

  the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre; he knows how to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, and to engrave any engraving and to devise any design that may be assigned to him, with your wise men and the wise men of my lord David your father.

• 2 Chronicles 3:14

  He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and put on it cherubim.