Colored
חֲטֻבוֹתStrong’s H2405chatuvah (cha-tu-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chatuvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “colored fabrics”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.”
Meaning
- Coloured fabric, dark-hued stuffs
How it's translated
- colored fabrics 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲטֻבוֹת chatuvah · colored
coloured fabric, dark-hued stuffs
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “colored” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COLORED, participle passive
- Having the external appearance changed; dyed; tinged; painted stained.
- Streaked; striped; having a diversity of hues.
- Having a specious appearance.
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.