Exodus 25:4
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
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Ezekiel 27:24
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
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תְּכֵלֶת
tᵉkêleth · tek-ay'-leth
50 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
the cerulean mussel, i.e. the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith
Strong's KJV usage: blue.
Strong's first: Exodus 25:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:24
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H8504
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.
H8504
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
H8504
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
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blue
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.
Prussian blue a combination of the oxyd of iron with an acid called ferro-prussic.
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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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