8350 - shasher

Strong's Concordance

Original word: שָׁשַׁר
Transliteration: shasher
Definition (short): red
Definition (full): red color, vermilion

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: red color, vermilion
NASB Translation: bright red (1), vermilion (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Perhaps from the base of sharar in the sense of that of saruq; red ochre (from its piercing color) -- vermillion.

see HEBREW sharar

see HEBREW saruq

References

Strong's 8350: 2 Occurrences
KJV: That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
NASB: Who says, 'I will build myself a roomy house With spacious upper rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.'
KJV: And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
NASB: "So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,