Sorrel
שָׂרֹקStrong’s H8320saruq (sa-ruq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Saruq is the Hebrew word usually translated “sorrel”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.”
Meaning
- Sorrel, reddish, tawny, bay
How it's translated
- sorrel 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שָׂרֹק saruq · sorrel
sorrel, reddish, tawny, bay
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sorrel” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOR'REL, adjective
Of a reddish color; as a sorel horse.
All definitions and other forms of “sorrel”
SOR'REL, noun
A reddish color; a faint red.
SOR'REL, noun
A plant of the genus Rumex, so named from its acid taste. The wood sorrel is of the genus Oxalis. The Indian red and Indian white sorrels are of the genus Hibiscus.
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.