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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Scarlet

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Scarlet

This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis, an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the Arabians.

This colour was early known (Genesis 38:28). It was one of the colours of the ephod (Exodus 28:6), the girdle (8), and the breastplate (15) of the high priest. It is also mentioned in various other connections (Joshua 2:18; 2 Samuel 1:24; Lamentations 4:5; Nahum 2:3). A scarlet robe was in mockery placed on our Lord (Matthew 27:28; Luke 23:11). "Sins as scarlet" (Isaiah 1:18), i.e., as scarlet robes "glaring and habitual." Scarlet and crimson were the firmest of dyes, and thus not easily washed out.


Naves Topical Index
Scarlet

See Color
Color


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Scarlet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Scarlet

SC'ARLET, noun

1. A beautiful bright red color, brighter than crimson.

2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

All her household are clothed with scarlet Proverbs 31:21.

SC'ARLET, adjective of the color called scarlet; of a bright red color; as a scarlet cloth or thread; a scarlet lip.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Scarlet-bean

SC'ARLET-BEAN, noun A plant; a red bean.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Scarlet-fever

SC'ARLET-FE'VER, noun [scarlatina.] a disease in which the body is covered with an efflorescence or red color, first appearing about the neck and breast, and accompanied with a sore throat.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Scarlet-oak

SC'ARLET-OAK, noun a species of oak, the Quercus coccifera, or kermes oak, producing small glandular excrescences, called kermes or scarlet grain.