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Purple

אַרְגְּוָןStrong’s H0711

argevan (ar-ge-van)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Argevan is the Aramaic word usually translated “purple”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”
Daniel 5:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Purple, red-purple
How it's translated
  • purple 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 3

1 book in all.

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Aramaic dictionary

אַרְגְּוָן argevan · purple

purple, red-purple Aramaic of ar.ge.van (אַרְגְּוָן "purple" H0710)

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.]

  1. Designating a color composed of red and blue blended, much admired, and formerly the roman emperors wore robes of this color.
  2. 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.

    1. 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.