Blue
תְּכֵ֫לֶתStrong’s H8504tekhelet (te-khe-let)
Appears in 49 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tekhelet is the Hebrew word usually translated “violet stuff”, “blue” and “violet”. It appears in 49 verses of the Old Testament.
“And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,”
Meaning
- Violet, violet stuffviolet thread · violet stuff or fabric
- (TWOT) blue (covering spectrum from brilliant red through deep purple)
How it's translated
- violet stuff 30
- and violet stuff 5
- the violet stuff 4
- blue 3
- in the violet stuff 2
- violet 2
- and violet 1
- in violet 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 34
- Numbers 6
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Esther 2
- Jeremiah 1
6 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 26:4And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּכֵ֫לֶת tekhelet · blue
1) violet, violet stuff 1a) violet thread 1b) violet stuff or fabric 2) (TWOT) blue (covering spectrum from brilliant red through deep purple)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “blue” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLUE, adjective
blu. One of the seven colors, into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism. There are various shades of blue as sky-blue, or azure, Prussian blue indigo blue smalt blue etc.
All definitions and other forms of “blue”
BLU'E, verb transitive
To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals etc.
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.