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<p> <strong> [[Crimson]] </strong> . The word <em> tôlâ‘ </em> , tr. [Note: translate or translation.] in &nbsp; Isaiah 1:18 ‘crimson’ and in &nbsp; Lamentations 4:5 ‘ <strong> scarlet </strong> ,’ is usually tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘ <strong> [[Worm]] </strong> ’ (wh. see), exactly as the Arab. [Note: Arabic.] <em> dûdeh </em> , the common word for ‘worm,’ is to-day also used in [[Palestine]] for the imported cochineal insect. The Palestine insect is the female <em> Coccus ilicis </em> of the same. Natural Order as the American <em> C. cacti </em> ; it feeds on the holm-oak. </p> <p> [[E. W. G]]  Masterman. </p>

<p> CRIMSON, n. [[G. A]]  deep red color a red tinged with blue also, a red color in general as the virgin crimson of modesty. </p> <p> He made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 3 . </p> <p> CRIMSON, a. Of a beautiful deep red as the crimson blush of modesty a crimson stream of blood. </p> <p> CRIMSON, To dye with crimson to dye of a deep red color to make red. </p> <p> CRIMSON, To become of a deep red color to be tinged with red to blush. </p> <p> Her cheeks crimsoned at the entrance of her lover. </p>

<p> '''''שָׁנַי''''' , ''Shani''' (&nbsp;Jeremiah 4:30; elsewhere "scarlet;" fully '''''תּוֹלִעִת''''' '''''שָׁנַי''''' , crimson-worm, &nbsp;Exodus 25:4, or '''''שְׁנַי''''' '''''תוֹלִעִת''''' , worm crimson, &nbsp;Leviticus 14:4, or simply '''''תּוֹלִע''''' , the worm itself, &nbsp;Isaiah 1:15, all rendered, except in this last passage, likewise:' scarlet"), later '''''כִּרְמַיל''''' , ''Kar'Il''' (invariably "crimson," &nbsp;2 Chronicles 2:7; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 2:14; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 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 (&nbsp;Isaiah 1:18; comp. Pliny, 33:40; hence '''''Χρῶμα''''' '''''Ὀξύ;''''' so in &nbsp;Matthew 27:28, '''''Χλάμυς''''' '''''Κοκκίνη''''' = '''''Ἐσθὴς''''' '''''Λαμπρά''''' in &nbsp;Luke 23:11). highly prized among the ancients for garments and tapestry (Horace, Sat. 2:6, 102), as articles of luxury with the nobility (&nbsp;Jeremiah 4:30; &nbsp;2 Samuel 1:24; &nbsp;Proverbs 31:21; &nbsp;Lamentations 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. &nbsp;Matthew 27:28, where '''''Κοκκίνη''''' '''''῟''''' '''''Πυρπύρα''''' in &nbsp;Mark 15:17; &nbsp;Mark 15:20, and &nbsp;John 19:4), especially the emperors (Sueton. ''Domit'' . 4). Many of the fabrics of the tabernacle and sacerdotal paraphernalia were also woven (Exodus 38; &nbsp;Numbers 4:8) of threads of this dye (&nbsp;Genesis 38:28; &nbsp;Joshua 2:18), which was likewise employed for the curtain of Solomon's [[Temple]] (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 3:14; comp. Sueton. [[Nero]] , 30). The color again occurs in the [[Mosaic]] ritual (&nbsp;Leviticus 14:6; &nbsp;Numbers 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]]). </p> <p> 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 (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 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]]). </p>