Crimson

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CRIMSON.—The word tôlâ‘, tr. [Note: translate or translation.] in Isa_1:18 ‘crimson’ and in Lam_4:5 ‘scarlet,’ is usually tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘Worm’ (wh. see), exactly as the Arab. [Note: Arabic.] dûdeh, the common word for ‘worm,’ is to-day also used in Palestine for the imported cochineal insect. The Palestine insect is the female Coccus ilicis of the same. Natural Order as the American C. cacti; it feeds on the holm-oak.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


krim?z'n. See COLORS.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Crimson [PURPLE]
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Isa_1:18 (b) This is a type of the extremely permanent effect of sin upon the soul. The word really means "a double dye," or "a repeated dipping in dye" until the substance is thoroughly and fully dyed. Thus the Lord is telling us that no matter how deep the sinner may be dyed in his sins, the Lord is able to blot them out, and to make him white and clean.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Crimson
שָׁנַי, shani' (Jer_4:30; elsewhere “scarlet;” fully תּוֹלִעִת שָׁנַי, crimson-worm, Exo_25:4, or שְׁנַי תוֹלִעִת, worm crimson, Lev_14:4, or simply תּוֹלִע, the worm itself, Isa_1:15, all rendered, except in this last passage, likewise:' scarlet”), later כִּרְמַיל, kar'il' (invariably “crimson,” 2Ch_2:7; 2Ch_2:14; 2Ch_3:14; on this Hebrews term, see Lorsbach, Archiv fur morgenlind. Literatur, 2:305; Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 714), a well-known red color (Pliny, 21:22), of a deep hue bordering on purple (q.v.), and in this respect differing from the brighter scarlet (q.v.), yet of a brilliant color (Isa_1:18; comp. Pliny, 33:40; hence χρῶμα ὀξύ; so in Mat_27:28, χλάμυς κοκκίνη = ἐσθὴς λαμπρά in Luk_23:11). highly prized among the ancients for garments and tapestry (Horace, Sat. 2:6, 102), as articles of luxury with the nobility (Jer_4:30; 2Sa_1:24; Pro_31:21; Lam_4:5; comp. Martial, 3, 2, 11; 2:39, 1; 43, 8; Patron. Sat. 32), and with the Romans for the robes of generals and princes (Pliny, 22:3; comp. Mat_27:28, where κοκκίνη ῟ πυρπύρα in Mar_15:17; Mar_15:20, and Joh_19:4), especially the emperors (Sueton. Domit. 4). Many of the fabrics of the tabernacle and sacerdotal paraphernalia were also woven (Exodus 38; Num_4:8) of threads of this dye (Gen_38:28; Jos_2:18), which was likewise employed for the curtain of Solomon's Temple (2Ch_3:14; comp. Sueton. Nero, 30). The color again occurs in the Mosaic ritual (Lev_14:6; Num_19:6). As to its symbolical significance, Philo (Opp. 1:536; comp. 2:148) and Josephus (Ant. 3, 7, 7) think that it, like the two sacred colors (scarlet and purple), reps resents the element of fire; according to Bahr (Sync. bol. 1:333 sq.), it denotes life (i.e. fire and blood, which are both red); while others find in it other typical allusions. SEE DYE.
Crimson is obtained from the pulverized cochineal berries, i.e. the dead bodies and larve-nests (see Brandt and Ratzeburg's Medicin. Zoologie, Berl. 1831 sq., 2, pl. 26, fig. 15) of a small parasitic insect, the female cochineal-worm (תּוֹלִעִת, tola') or kermes (the Coccus ilicis of Linn., cl. 4, Tetragynia), which towards the end of April fastens itself, like little raisins, in the form of round reddish or violet-brown berries upon the twigs, less frequently on the leaves, of the palmoak (πρῖνος or ἡ κόκκος, Ilex aquifolia or coccifera; comp. Theophrastus, Plaut. 3, 16; Pliny, 16:12; Pausanias, 10:36, 1; see Kirby, Entomol. 1:351; Cuvier, Anim. King. 3, 604, 608). This shrubby tree, some two or three feet high, grows abundantly in Asia Minor and Hither Asia (certainly also in Palestine; see Belon, Observ. 2:88), as well as in Southern Europe, has oval, pointed, evergreen, thorny leaves, a grayish smooth bark, and bears round scarlet berries in clustered tufts (Dioscor. 4:48). Among the ancients, the Phoenicians generally supplied the rest of the world with crimson materials, and best under-stood the art of dyeing this color (2Ch_2:7; comp. Pliny, 9:65). (See Beckmann, Beitr. III, 1:1 sq.; Bochart, Hieroz. 3, 524 sq.; Braun, De vestitu sacerd. 1. i, c. 15, p. 215 sq.; Hartmann, Hebr. 1:388 sq.; 3, 135 sq.; Penny Cyclopaedia, s.v. Cochineal.) SEE COLOR.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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