אַרְגָּמָן
ʼargâmân
Meaning “purple”
BDB purple, red-purple
38 verses
9 books · uncommon Hebrew Bible
First appears: Exodus 25:4
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אַרְגָּמָן 8 books
- Exodus 25:4 וְ/אַרְגָּמָ֛ן blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
- Numbers 4:13 אַרְגָּמָֽן They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
- Judges 8:26 הָ/אַרְגָּמָ֗ן The weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 בָּ/אַרְגָּמָ֤ן the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
- Esther 1:6 וְ/אַרְגָּמָ֔ן [There were hangings of] white [cloth], [of] green, and [of] blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.
- Proverbs 31:22 וְ/אַרְגָּמָ֣ן She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- Jeremiah 10:9 וְ/אַרְגָּמָן֙ There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.
- Ezekiel 27:7 וְ/אַרְגָּמָ֛ן Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.
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