Exodus 25:4
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
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Purple
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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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אַרְגָּמָן
ʼargâmân · ar-gaw-mawn'
38 times translated as this KJV form38 total Strong's occurrences
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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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.
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Strong's first: Mark 15:17Strong's last: Revelation 18:12
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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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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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ʼargᵉvân · arg-ev-awn'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
purple
Strong's KJV usage: purple.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 2:7Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 2:7
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H713
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
H713
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
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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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