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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Purple

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.

48exact KJV occurrences 39Old Testament 9New Testament 14books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 48occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Exodus 25:4

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 18:16

And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where purple appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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.

HebrewH713
אַרְגָּמָן

ʼargâmân · ar-gaw-mawn'

38 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

purple (the color or the dyed stuff)

Strong's KJV usage: purple.

Strong's first: Exodus 25:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:16

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GreekG4209
πορφύρα

porphýra · por-foo'-rah

5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences

the "purple" mussel, i.e. (by implication) the red-blue color itself, and finally a garment dyed with it

Strong's KJV usage: :--purple.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 15:17Strong's last: Revelation 18:12

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GreekG4210
πορφυροῦς

porphyroûs · por-foo-rooce'

3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

purpureal, i.e. bluish red

Strong's KJV usage: :--purple.

Strong's first: John 19:2Strong's last: Revelation 18:16

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GreekG4211
πορφυρόπωλις

porphyrópōlis · por-foo-rop'-o-lis

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a female trader in purple cloth

Strong's KJV usage: :--seller of purple.

Strong's first: Acts 16:14Strong's last: Acts 16:14

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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48 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Exodus 25:4
H713

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Exodus 26:1
H713

Moreover 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 26:31
H713

And 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 26:36
H713

And 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 27:16
H713

And 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 28:5
H713

And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

Exodus 28:6
H713

And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

Exodus 28:8
H713

And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 28:15
H713

And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

Exodus 28:33
H713

And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

Exodus 35:6
H713

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

Exodus 35:23
H713

And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.

Exodus 35:25
H713

And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.

Exodus 35:35
H713

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

Exodus 36:8
H713

And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

Exodus 36:35
H713

And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

Exodus 36:37
H713

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

Exodus 38:18
H713

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.

Exodus 38:23
H713

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

Exodus 39:1
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And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:2
H713

And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Exodus 39:3
H713

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.

Exodus 39:5
H713

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.

Exodus 39:8
H713

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.

Exodus 39:24
H713

And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

purple

PUR'PLE, adjective [Latin purpureus; purpura, a shell from which the color was obtained.]

1. Designating a color composed of red and blue blended, much admired, and formerly the roman emperors wore robes of this color.

2. In poetry, red or livid; dyed with blood.

I view a field of blood,

And Tyber rolling with a purple flood.

PUR'PLE, noun A purple color or dress; hence, imperial government in the Roman empire, as a purple robe was the distinguishing dress of the emperors.

1. A cardinalate.

PUR'PLE, verb transitive [Latin purpuro.] To make purple or to dye of a red color; as hands purpled with blood.

When morn

Purples the east.

Reclining soft in blissful bowers,

Purpled sweet with springing flowers.

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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