Quick Definition
κόκκινος, η, ον Adj crimson
Strong's Definition
from 2848 (from the kernel-shape of the insect); crimson-colored
KJV Usage: scarlet (colour, coloured)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -η, -ον | κόκκος
79.29 · Features of Objects · Color
scarlet, red a dye obtained from egg-clusters of a cochineal, collected from the leaves of Quercus coccifera In MAT 27:28 ‘scarlet robe’ may have implied high military rank.
MAT 27:28 · HEB 9:19 · REV 17:3 · REV 17:4 · REV 18:12 · REV 18:16
6.170 · (κόκκινον (ου n)) · Artifacts · Cloth, Leather, and Objects Made of Such Materials
scarlet cloth a reddish-purple cloth dyed with a substance obtained from the murex shellfish; expensive to produce; associated with wealth and royalty
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κόκκινος, -7, -ov, (fr. κόκκος a kernel, the grain or berry of the ilex coccifera; these berries are the clusters of eges of a female insect, the kermes [(cf. Eng. carmine, crimson) |, and when collected and pulverized produce a red which was used in dyeing, Plin. h. n. 9, 41, 45; 16, 8, 12; 24, 4), crimson, scarlet-colored: Mt. xxvii. 28; Heb. ix. 19; Rev. xvii. 3. neut. as a subst. i. q. scarlet cloth or clothing: Rev. xvii.4; xviii. 12,16, (Gen. xxxviii. 28; Ex. xxv.4; Lev. xiv. 4, 6; Josh. ii. 18; 2S. i. 24; 2 Chr. ii. 7,14; Plut. Fab. 15; φορεῖν κόκκινα, scarlet robes, Epict. diss. 4, 11,345 ἐν κοκκίνοις περιπατεῖν, 3, 22, 10). Cf. Win. RWB.s. v.Carmesin; Roskoffin Schenkel i. p. 501 sq.; Kamphausen in Riehm p. 220; [Β. Ὁ. 8. v. Colors, II. 3].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κόκκινος kokkinos 6x
dyed with coccus, crimson, scarlet, Mt. 27:28; Heb. 9:19; Rev. 17:3, 4; 18:12, 16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† κόκκινος, -η, -ον
(< κόκκος, as used of the "berry" of the ilex coccifera, v. DB, iv, 416), [in LXX for תּוֹלֵעָה, תּוֹלָע, שָׁנִי, Ex 25:4, Ge 38:28, Is 1:18, al.;]
scarlet: Mt 27:28, He 9:19, Re 17:3; neut., without substantive, of clothing, Re 17:4 18:12, 16,†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κόκκινος. To the quotations for this adj. from Plutarch and Epictetus given by Grimm-Thayer, Deissmann (2.4.8 p. 77) adds a reference to Herodas vi. 19 τὸν κόκκινον βαυβῶνα. From a later date we have such occurrences in the papyri as P Hamb I. τοῦ" (ii/a.p.) κοκκίνην, Ρ Tebt II. 4055 (iii/a-p.) φορφυροῦ[ν] Kal κόκκινον, “ purple and scarlet” (cf. Rev 174), and P Lond 193 verso™* (ii/A.D.) (=II. p. 246), the accounts of a pawnshop, which show that a “‘scarlet shirt” -- κιτὼν KéKkwos—realized an advance of 20 drachmae as against 11 drachmae for a ‘‘ new white shirt” (χιτὼν dyvaφος λευκός). On Heb 9'* we may refer to Abt (Die Apologie des Apul., p. 148), who quotes Theocr. ii. 2 φοινικέῳ οἰὸς ἀώτῳ, and P Lond 46% (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 77) ἅμματι φοινικίνῳ, pointing out ‘der lustrative Charakter des Purpur.” MGr κόκκινος, ‘‘red” : κοκκινίζω, ‘ blush.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κόκκινος (kokkinos) — scarlet. κόκκ-ῐνος, η, ον, scarlet, [NT+3rd c.BC+]blushing, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. substantive κόκκινα, τά, scarlet clothes, ἐν κ. περιπατεῖν, κ. φορεῖν, [LXX+2nd c.AD+]