Word

תְּכֵלֶת

tᵉkêleth · H8504 · Hebrew · 49 occurrences

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Thing

Purple clothCloth manufacture96 verses

Meanings

reddish-purple

Woven material, dyed reddish-purple with a substance obtained from the murex shellfish

Examples
Exodus 25:4 violet, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair,
Exodus 26:1 “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and violet, purple, and scarlet material; you shall make them with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.
Exodus 26:4 “You shall make loops of violet on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

How it’s used In 7 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁזַרspun 1

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 2 groups

מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 4
מָסָךְscreen 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אָחַזto seize, to hold 1
מָצָאto find 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
לָקַחto take, to receive 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לְבוּשׁclothing 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 4
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

16 occurrences in 7 groups

פָּתִילcord 5
בֶּגֶדgarment, clothes 4
לֻלָאָהloop 2
רִמּוֹןpomegranate 2
גְּלוֹםcloak 1
מַלְכוּתkingdom, reign, kingship 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Cloth001002005003: This noun denotes blue or violet dyed material, as in Exodus 26:1's instruction to make the tabernacle's curtains of fine twisted linen and violet, purple, and scarlet material.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8504. tekeleth תְּכֵ֫לֶת48 noun feminine violet, i.e. violet thread and stuff; ᵐ5…

H8504. tekeleth
תְּכֵ֫לֶת48 noun feminine violet, i.e. violet thread and stuff; ᵐ5 usually υἄκινθος, υἀκίθινος; see ThatcherHast. DB COLOURS (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; תִּכְלָא ᵑ7); —
1 violet thread (spun, Exo 35:25; woven, Exo 39:3):
a. in Exodus (P) of hangings of tabernacle, ephod, etc., ׳ת + שָׁנִי תּוֺלַעַת אַרְגָּמָן, (q. v.; often also זהב שֵׁשׁ,), Exo 25:4; Exo 26:1; Exo 28:5-6, Exo 28:33; Exo 35:25 Exo 35:20t.; of temple hangings (+ בּוּץ כַּרְמִיל, אַרְגְּוָן, אַרְגָּמָן,) 2Ch 2:6; 2Ch 2:13; 2Ch 2:14; loops or cords of ׳ת (alone) Exo 26:4; Exo 28:28, Exo 28:31, Exo 28:37; Exo 36:11; Exo 39:21-22, Exo 39:31; Num 15:38 (all P).
b. palace hangings in Shushan + חוּר Est 1:6.
2 violet stuff, fabric.; ת ׳לְבוּשֵׁי Eze 23:6, וְרִקְמָה ת ׳גְּלוֺמֵי Eze 27:24; ׳ת לְבוּשָׁם וְאַרְגָּמָן Jer 10:9; also in trade Eze 27:7 (+ בְּרִקְמָה שֵׁשׁ אַרְגָּמָן,), compare ת ׳בֶּגֶד for covering sacred utensils Num 4:6-7, Num 4:9, Num 4:11, Num 4:12 (P).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Cloth49 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