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
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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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And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
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And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
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And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
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And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
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And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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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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