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Strong's #3758 - כַּרְמִיל
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- crimson, red, carmine
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3029) lmrk (כרמל KRML) AC: ? CO: Garden AB: ?
Nm ) lmrk (כרמל KRML) - Garden: A field that produces an abundance of fruit. KJV (13): fruitful field, plentiful field, full ear, green ear, full ears of corn, plentiful - Strongs: H3759 (כַּרְמֶל)
bm) limrk (כרמיל KRMYL) - Crimson: KJV (3): crimson - Strongs: H3758 (כַּרְמִיל)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
worm, see De ZDuth. Th. 1878,593); — only 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 2:13; 2 Chronicles 3:14 (in all + אַרְגָּמָן (ו־ָןׅתְּכֵלֶת 2 Chronicles 2:13; 2 Chronicles 3:14 + בּוּץ also ); read perhaps also for כַּדְמֶל Song of Solomon 7:6 ("" אַרְגָּוָן: so Gi, of hair formed spirally, like shell-fish; Gr, of glossy hair).
כַּרְמִיל m. crimson, crimson colour, prepared from insects which inhabited in vast numbers a kind of ilex (coccus ilicis, Linn.); also cloth of a crimson colour; in the later Hebrew, i.q. שָׁנִי, which see; in the more ancient, תּוֹלַעַת 2 Chronicles 2:6, 13 2 Chronicles 2:13, 3:14. The Hebrews adopted this word from the Persians; it is from the Pers. كرم kerm; Sanscr. krimi, a worm; and الَ bright red; compare Armen. karmir; Arab. قرمز coccus, worm, قرمزل coccus; Germ. cramoifi, carmefin [Engl. crimson]. In like manner from vermiculus is derived the French vermeil [English vermillion.]
