Crimson
כַּרְמִילStrong’s H3758karmil (kar-mil)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Karmil is the Hebrew word usually translated “crimson”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.”
Meaning
- Crimson, red, carmine
How it's translated
- and crimson 2
- and in crimson 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 2:14The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
- 2 Chronicles 3:14And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּרְמִיל karmil · crimson
crimson, red, carmine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crimson” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRIMSON, noun
[G.]
A deep red color; a red tinged with blue; also, a red color in general; as the virgin crimson of modesty.
- “He made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson” 2 Chronicles 3:14
All definitions and other forms of “crimson”
CRIMSON, adjective
Of a beautiful deep red; as the crimson blush of modesty; a crimson stream of blood.
CRIMSON, verb transitive
To dye with crimson; to dye of a deep red color; to make red.
CRIMSON, verb intransitive
To become of a deep red color; to be tinged with red; to blush.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.