Purple
אַרְגָּמָןStrong’s H0713argaman (ar-ga-man)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Argaman is the Hebrew word usually translated “purple”, “purple cloth” and “purple wool”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,”
Meaning
- Purple, red-purple
How it's translated
- and purple 26
- the purple 3
- and in the purple 2
- purple 2
- and the purple 1
- purple cloth 1
- in purple 1
- purple wool 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 26
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Esther 2
- Song of Solomon 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Numbers 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 26:31And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
- Exodus 26:36And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
- Exodus 27:16And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 28:5And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
- Exodus 28:6And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
Hebrew dictionary
אַרְגָּמָן argaman · purple
purple, red-purple
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.