An outer-garment dyed from scarlet in the Hebrew language.
*boso/r: to\ i(ma/tion to\ a)po\ ko/kkou bebamme/non kata\ *(ebrai/+da dia/lekton.
The headword Bosor, which appears in that form throughout the
Septuagint (beginning with
Deuteronomy 4.43) and also in e.g. the
New Testament (
2 Peter 2.15) and
Josephus (
Antiquities of the Jews 12.340), should more accurately be "Botsor", a variant of "Botsrah", the town בצרה of the Edomites that was destroyed with great bloodshed, leading to the image of God as a warrior dripping blood after having "trodden the winepress of Botsrah".
Cyril of
Jerusalem (
Lecture 13, paragraph 27, at web address 1) apparently did not understand the reference and decided that "botsor" must mean a red garment:
"Again, when He had been judged before Pilate, He was clothed in red; for there they put on Him a purple robe. Is this also written? Esaias saith, 'Who is this that cometh from Edom? the redness of His garments is from Bosor' (מבצרה;
Isaiah lxiii. 1, 2.); who is this who in dishonor weareth purple? For Bosor has some such meaning in Hebrew. 'Why are Thy garments red, and Thy raiment as from a trodden wine-press?' But He answers and says, All day long have I stretched forth Mine hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people."
For "scarlet" see LSJ s.v.
ko/kkos, II (literally the berry or gall of the
Quercus coccifera, used to dye this color; see e.g.
Pausanias 10.36.1-2).
Ross Scaife ✝ (added note following conversation with Raphael Finkel) on 18 May 2001@09:32:22.
Ross Scaife ✝ (modified arrangement of note for greater clarity) on 18 May 2001@18:55:18.
Raphael Finkel (Added Hebrew) on 31 October 2002@11:32:52.
David Whitehead (added note on scarlet; augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 29 July 2003@09:36:23.
Catharine Roth (added clarification to note, at the suggestion of Jane E. Phillips) on 9 November 2004@12:09:32.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 1 June 2012@04:35:15.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 3 July 2012@22:26:41.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 22 September 2015@03:01:58.
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