שָׁשַׁר
shâshar · shaw-shar'
red ochre (from its piercing color)
Lexicon
Derivation: perhaps from the base of H8324 (שָׁרַר) in the sense of that of H8320 (שָׂרֻק);
red ochre (from its piercing color)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: vermillion.
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
- 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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy that works to consume, to destroy of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁשַׁר 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
2 occurrences · 2 OT · 0 NT · 1 distinct forms