Cursed be the man who brought the news To my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!" And made him very happy.
Original word: שָׁשַׁר
Transliteration: shasher
Definition (short): red
Definition (full): red color, vermilion
Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: red color, vermilion
NASB Translation: bright red (1), vermilion (1).
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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
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,