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title: שָׁשֵׁר — red colour · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁשֵׁר (8350), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: red colour. BDB 1906: red colour, vermilion. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁשֵׁר

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«שָׁשֵׁר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **red colour** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 8350 · **BDB:** שָׁשֵׁר

### Glosses

vermilion (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁשֵׁר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8350/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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,

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

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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.

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