Strong's #8350: shashar (pronounced shaw-shar')

perhaps from the base of 8324 in the sense of that of 8320; red ochre (from its piercing color):--vermillion.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâshar

1) red colour, vermilion

1a) formerly gained from ' kermes' insect

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: perhaps from the base of H8324 in the sense of that of H8320

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Jeremiah 22:14: "and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion."
Ezekiel 23:14: "the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,"