Word

πορφύρα

porphýra · G4209 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Purple clothCloth manufacture96 verses

Meanings

purple cloth

A reddish-purple cloth dyed with a substance obtained from the murex shellfish; expensive to produce; associated with wealth and royalty

Examples
Mark 15:17 And they dressed Him in purple, and after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on Him;
Mark 15:20 And after they had mocked Him, they took the purple cloak off Him and put His own garments on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.
Luke 16:19 “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself in splendor every day.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνδιδύσκωto clothe 1

Second object ofSecond object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐκδύωto take off clothes 1
ἐνδιδύσκωto clothe 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γόμοςload 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

אַרְגָּמָן ʼargâmân · H713 · reddish-purple: אַרְגָּמָן (ʼargâmân, H713) אַרְגָּמָן is the Hebrew term for purple dye/fabric that πορφύρα (porphýra, G4209) πορφύρα directly translates in LXX contexts, both denoting the prestigious red-blue color derived from shellfish and the luxury textiles dyed with it.
אַרְגְּוָן ʼargᵉvân · H711 · purple: Greek πορφύρα and Hebrew אַרְגְּוָן both denote purple dye/fabric, representing direct translation equivalents for this color term across LXX alignment contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Scarlet cloth6.169: The noun names purple-dyed cloth or a garment made of it. Mark's account of the mockery of Jesus uses this term: “And they dressed Him in purple, and after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on Him” (Mark 15:17).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πορφύραporphýra · G4209πορφυροῦς porphyroûs · G4210 · purple, scarlet cloth · 4×πορφυρόπωλις porphyrópōlis · G4211 · dealer in purple cloth · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πορφύρας, ἡ, the Sept. for אַרְגָמָן; 1. the purple-fish, a species of shell-fish or…

πορφύρας, ἡ, the Sept. for אַרְגָמָן;
1. the purple-fish, a species of shell-fish or mussel: (Aeschylus, Sophocles), Isocrates, Aristotle, others; add 1 Macc. 4:23, on which see Grimm; (cf. B. D., under the word 1).
2. a fabric colored with the purple dye, a garment made from purple cloth (so from Aeschylus down): Mk 15:17, Mk 15:20; Lk 16:19; Rev 17:4 Rec.; .

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Cloth, Leather, and Objects Made of Such Materials4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0