Bible Dictionary: The Color Purple

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Greek

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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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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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

713. argaman -- purple, red-purple
... threads (1). purple. Of foreign origin; purple (the color or the dyed stuff) --
purple. 712, 713. argaman. 714 . Strong's Numbers.
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8438. tola -- worm, scarlet stuff
... unused word Definition worm, scarlet stuff NASB Word Usage crimson (1), purple
(1), worms ... crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the color from it ...
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8504. tekeleth -- violet, violet thread
... violet, violet thread NASB Word Usage blue (43), purple (1), violet (5). blue. Probably
for shcheleth; the cerulean mussel, ie The color (violet) obtained ...
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Library

Those Days it was Near Twelve O'Clock by the Great Dial of History ...
... with marble and green with gardens, and traced and spotted and flecked with gold;
its thoroughfares were bright with color"white, purple, yellow, scarlet ...
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I Will Take one Case that Will Serve Both as Symbol and Example...
... plumes of factory girls in the second scene as well as purple lenten vestments ... The
real difference is this: that the brown earth-color of the monk's coat was ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 35 i will take.htm

Thine Head Upon Thee is Like Carmel, and the Hair of Thy Head Like ...
... But this purple is yet attached to the water courses, both to perfect the brilliancy
of its color by the graces which descend from Heaven for it, and because ...
/.../guyon/song of songs of solomon/5 thine head upon thee.htm

Concerning the Tabernacle which Moses Built in the Wilderness for ...
... camels' hair also, and sheep-skins, some of them dyed of a blue color, and some
of a scarlet; some brought the flower for the purple color, and others for white ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 concerning the tabernacle.htm

The Emperor Theodosius by Salaminius Hermias Sozomen, and Proposal ...
... One brings a precious stone not easily susceptible of polish; another undertakes
to prepare a more brilliant color than the purple robe; one dedicates a poem ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/address to the emperor theodosius.htm

Concerning the Garments of the Priests, and of the High Priest.
... elements; for the fine linen was proper to signify the earth, because the flax grows
out of the earth; the purple signified the sea, because that color is dyed ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 7 concerning the garments.htm

Book ix. On Jerusalem and Her Enemies
... Hyacinth is the blue color of the confessors; in Exodus: the same as above. ... in Exodus:
and they made an ephod of gold and hyacinth and purple and scarlet goats ...
/.../eucherius/the formulae of st eucherius of lyons/book ix on jerusalem and.htm

Personal Notes: Relics Nearby that the Three Kings had Given to ...
... of about two square inches of thick coarse woolen stuff woven in a very faded flowered
pattern, in color dark reddish brown and in places dark purple. ...
/.../the life of the blessed virgin mary/xv personal notes relics nearby.htm

Antichrist.
... See how the Holy Ghost sets her forth: she was arrayed in purple and scarlet color,
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in ...
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A Warning Rejected.
... The woman (Babylon) of Revelation 17, is described as "arrayed in purple and scarlet
color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a ...
/.../white/the great controversy between christ and satan /21 a warning rejected.htm