Bible Dictionary: The Color Blue

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Greek

5192. huakinthos -- hyacinth
... Of uncertain derivation; the "hyacinth" or "jacinth", ie Some gem of a deep blue
color, probably the zirkon -- jacinth. (uakinthos) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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5191. huakinthinos -- of hyacinth, hyacinthine
... Transliteration: huakinthinos Phonetic Spelling: (hoo-ak-in'-thee-nos) Short Definition:
dark purple Definition: dark purple or blue, of the color of hyacinth. ...
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4209. porphura -- purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth
... Of Latin origin; the "purple" mussel, ie (by implication) the red-blue color itself,
and finally a garment dyed with it -- purple. (porphuran) -- 3 Occurrences. ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Exodus 26:1-36
Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of cunning work shall you make them.
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Strong's Hebrew

8504. tekeleth -- violet, violet thread
... blue. Probably for shcheleth; the cerulean mussel, ie The color (violet) obtained
therefrom or stuff dyed therewith -- blue. see HEBREW shcheleth. 8503, 8504 ...
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Library

I Will Take one Case that Will Serve Both as Symbol and Example...
... The color was often arbitrary; but it was always authoritative. If a bird was blue,
if a tree was golden, if a fish was silver, if a cloud was scarlet, the ...
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Concerning the Garments of the Priests, and of the High Priest.
... 4. The high priest is indeed adorned with the same garments that we have described,
without abating one; only over these he puts on a vestment of a blue color. ...
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Concerning the Tabernacle which Moses Built in the Wilderness for ...
... of the best sorts of wood, and such as would not at all decay by putrefaction; camels'
hair also, and sheep-skins, some of them dyed of a blue color, and some ...
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Popular Science, Like that of Mr. ...
... for a bluebell; if you spilled the mustard on the blue-books; if you married a canary
to a blue baboon; there ... The thing is always a new color; a strange star. ...
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High Priest
... priest had also the very idolatrous symbolical meanings of every part of his dress,
which being made of linen signified the earth; the blue color denoted the ...
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Book ix. On Jerusalem and Her Enemies
... Linen is the radiance of chastity or continence; in Exodus: the same as above. Hyacinth
is the blue color of the confessors; in Exodus: the same as above. ...
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The Early Life of the Blessed virgin at the Temple.
... I often saw her weeping at her prayers and surrounded by radiance. As she grew up,
I always saw that she wore a dress of a glistening blue color. ...
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Completeness and Universality of his Character.
... His soul is a moral paradise full of charming flowers, shining in every variety
of color under the blue dome of the skies, drinking in the refreshing dews of ...
/.../schaff/the person of christ/completeness and universality of his.htm

Greek and Jew
... En-Rogel, the Great Pool, the Serpent's Pool and the Dragon's Well reflected the
color of the mountain heavens. Between them wandered the blue threads of ...
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Jesus is God, Following us Up.
... Man is cross-eyed Godward, but doesn't know it. Man is color-blind toward God.
The blue of God's truth is to him an arousing, angering red. ...
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