שָׁנִי
shânîy · shaw-nee'
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
Lexicon
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: crimson, scarlet (thread).
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the seed, life continuing › the hand that works
To consume, to destroy of the seed, life continuing of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁנִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
42 occurrences · 42 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and scarlet22 · 52%
- of scarlet4 · 10%
- and of scarlet3 · 7%
- and the scarlet2 · 5%
- a scarlet thread1 · 2%
- that had the scarlet thread1 · 2%
- in scarlet1 · 2%
- and in scarlet1 · 2%
- and in the scarlet1 · 2%
- and with the scarlet1 · 2%
- the scarlet1 · 2%
- you in scarlet1 · 2%
- with scarlet1 · 2%
- be as scarlet1 · 2%
- thyself with crimson1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.