# H8144 שָׁנִי

שָׁנִי (shânîy), Strong’s H8144: crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it KJV: crimson, scarlet (thread).. Occurs 42 times.

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*shânîy* — crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it

KJV: crimson, scarlet (thread).

Occurs 42 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 38:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=28) — When she travailed, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This came…
- [Genesis 38:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=30) — Afterward his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
- [Exodus 25:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=4) — blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
- [Exodus 26:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=1) — “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with…
- [Exodus 26:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=31) — “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of…
- [Exodus 26:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=36) — “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of…
- [Exodus 27:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=16) — For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen…
- [Exodus 28:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=5) — They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- [Exodus 28:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=6) — “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
- [Exodus 28:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=8) — The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple…