how to say “scarlet” in Hebrew

 

שָׁנִי

 

 
The Hebrew word for red is אָדֹם  listen and repeat (more primary colors in Hebrew).
 
The Modern-Hebrew color שָׁנִי  listen and repeat is a particular shade of red, whose dye in Biblical times was drawn from a particular type of insect, תּוֹלַעַת הַשָּׁנִי  listen and repeat – the “shani” worm (today known to be an aphid). In English, we call it scarlet.
 
For example:
 
הִיא קָשְׁרָה אֶת הָאֶצְבַּע שֶׁלּוֹ בְּחוּט בְּצֶבַע שָׁנִי.
She tied his finger with a thread of the color scarlet.
 
And Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter? That’s אוֹת הַשָּׁנִי  listen and repeat in Hebrew.
 
שני is a popular Hebrew name for females.

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