אַרְגְּוָן
ʼargᵉvân · H710 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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reddish-purple
Woven material, dyed reddish-purple with a substance obtained from the murex shellfish
Examples2 Chronicles 2:7 “Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass, iron, and in purple, crimson, and violet fabrics, one who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled workers whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
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In the other Testament 2 words
- πορφύρα porphýra · G4209 · scarlet cloth
- Direct Greek translation equivalent for the purple dye/cloth; standard LXX rendering of the Hebrew purple terminology.
- πορφυροῦς porphyroûs · G4210 · purple, scarlet cloth
- Greek adjectival form for 'purple,' used to describe purple-colored items; functionally equivalent when describing purple cloth or garments.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cloth001002005003
- אַרְגְּוָן denotes purple cloth or dye, mentioned within Solomon's message to Hiram concerning the temple's construction materials (2 Chronicles 2:6-7, where purple is named among the materials Solomon requests skilled workers to provide).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H710. argevan אַרְגְּוָן noun [masculine] purple (of Aramaic form, compare Hebrew below;…
אַרְגְּוָן noun [masculine] purple (of Aramaic form, compare Hebrew below; perhaps text error) = purple thread2Ch 2:6 (+ וּתְכֵלֶת כַּרְמִיל), compare 2Ch 2:13; 2Ch 3:14 below אַרְגָּמָן.
[אַרְגְּוָן] noun masculine purple, red-purple (Biblical Hebrew id., אַרְגָּמָן); — emphatic אַרְגְּוָנָא Dan 5:7, Dan 5:17, Dan 5:29.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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