Strongs H8144

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שָׁנִי (shânîy) n-m (shaw-nee')
Source: of uncertain derivation;
Meaning: crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
KJV: crimson, scarlet (thread).

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

שָׁנִי 42 n.[m.] scarlet (prop. coccus ilicis, which attaches itself to leaves and twigs of quercus coccifera; the dried body of female yields colouring matter) {1040}

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