crimson, scarlet (thread)
“Crimson” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(carmine). A deep-red color; or a red tinged with blue (Jer. 4:30).
“Scarlet” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(orange-red). A Tyrian color much prized by ancients (Ex. 25:4; Prov. 31:21).
“Crimson” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
Gerbera Daisy
Three Hebrew words are so translated.
1. karmil, a color prepared from an insect which inhabits a species of oak: it is crimson or deep scarlet (2 Chron. 2:7,14; 2 Chron. 3:14).
2. shani, the word commonly translated “scarlet” (Jer. 4:30).
3. tola, name of a worm, thought to be a dye of a bluish tint. This word occurs in the memorable passage in Isaiah’s prophecy, that though Israel’s sins should be red like crimson, they should be as wool (Isa. 1:18). The same word is translated scarlet in Lamentations 4:5.
“Scarlet” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
Scarlet—Carmine
The word most frequently translated “scarlet” is shani, and this is often accompanied by the word tolaath, “worm or grub,” apparently intimating that the color was obtained from some insect, as it is now from the cochineal.
Cochineal bugs on a prickly pear plant.
Scarlet was much used in the needlework and hangings of the tabernacle, in conjunction with blue and purple; but there it apparently refers to some fabric of the color of scarlet. If the purple be taken as symbolical of royalty and universal dominion, the scarlet may signify earthly grandeur and Israelitish royalty (Ex. 39:1-29; Josh. 2:18,21; 2 Sam. 1:24; Prov. 31:21; Song of Sol. 4:3; Isa. 1:18). In the New Testament they clothed the Lord in a scarlet robe, κὀκκινος (Matt. 27:28) it is “purple” in Mark and John: it may have been an old faded robe that could be called either. Scarlet is also employed with purple to point out the earthly grandeur of Papal Rome (Rev. 17:3-4; Rev. 18:12,16).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
of uncertain derivation; crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
KJV Usage:
crimson, scarlet (thread)