Definition

bright red (as piercing to the sight), i.e. bay

Etymology

from H8319 (שָׁרַק);

Word family

• שָׁרַק shâraq

How the KJV renders it

• speckled. See H8291 (שָׂרוּק)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.