Purple
אַרְגְּוָןStrong’s H0710argevan (ar-ge-van)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Argevan is the Hebrew word usually translated “purple”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.”
Meaning
- Purple
How it's translated
- and in purple 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אַרְגְּוָן argevan · purple
purple Aramaic equivalent: ar.ge.van (אַרְגְּוָן "purple" H0711)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “purple” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PUR'PLE, adjective
[Latin purpureus; purpura, a shell from which the color was obtained.]
- Designating a color composed of red and blue blended, much admired, and formerly the roman emperors wore robes of this color.
- In poetry, red or livid; dyed with blood.
All definitions and other forms of “purple”
PUR'PLE, noun
A purple color or dress; hence, imperial government in the Roman empire, as a purple robe was the distinguishing dress of the emperors.
- A cardinalate.
PUR'PLE, verb transitive
[Latin purpuro.]
To make purple or to dye of a red color; as hands purpled with blood.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.