Ochre, Red
Ochre, Red
oker, (Isa 44:13, He marketh it out with a pencil, margin red ochre, the King James Version line; , seredh, a word found only here, and of unknown etymology): Designates the implement used by the carpenter to mark the wood after measuring and before cutting. Red ochre supposes this to have been a crayon (as does pencil), but a scratch-awl is quite as likely. Ochre is clay colored by an iron compound.