Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Colours
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
Ezekiel 17:3
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Read in context →Genesis
3 occurrences in 3 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where colours appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
פַּס
paç · pas
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a long and sleeved tunic (perhaps simply a wide one; from the original sense of the root, i.e. of many breadths)
Strong's KJV usage: (divers) colours.
Strong's first: Genesis 37:3Strong's last: 2 Samuel 13:19
Open full H6446 profile →צֶבַע
tsebaʻ · tseh'-bah
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a dye
Strong's KJV usage: divers, colours.
Strong's first: Judges 5:30Strong's last: Judges 5:30
Open full H6648 profile →רִקְמָה
riqmâh · rik-maw'
2 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
variegation of color; specifically, embroidery
Strong's KJV usage: broidered (work), divers colours, (raiment of) needlework (on both sides).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 29:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:3
Open full H7553 profile →טָלָא
ṭâlâʼ · taw-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to cover with pieces; i.e. (by implication) to spot or variegate (as tapestry)
Strong's KJV usage: clouted, with divers colours, spotted.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 16:16Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:16
Open full H2921 profile →פּוּךְ
pûwk · pook
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
dye (specifically, stibium for the eyes)
Strong's KJV usage: fair colours, glistering, paint(-ed) (-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 54:11Strong's last: Isaiah 54:11
Open full H6320 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
12 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H6446
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
H6446
And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;
H6446
And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
H6648
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
H6648
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
H6648
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
H6446
And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
H6446
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
H7553
Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
H6320
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
H2921
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
H7553
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
No Webster 1828 entry was found for this exact KJV form or its conservative base-form candidates.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.