וּתְכֵ֧לֶת וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן וְתוֹלַ֥עַת שָׁנִ֖י וְשֵׁ֥שׁ וְעִזִּֽים
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 35:6
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 35:6 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
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King James Version Public Domain
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and blue and purple and worm of scarlet and fine linen and goats’ hair
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
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King James Version Public Domain
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' `hair',
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Also blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine linen, and goates heare,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, goats' hair,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' `hair',
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats’ [hair],
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats' hair;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and blue and purple and worm of scarlet and fine linen and goats’ hair
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' [hair],
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
blue, purple, and crimson thread; finely-woven linen and goat hair;
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair;
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וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן
ʼargâmân
H713
“and · purple”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 38× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 25:4
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
purple, red-purple
- וּתְכֵ֧לֶת tᵉkêleth H8504 “and · violet” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן ʼargâmân H713 “and · purple” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְתוֹלַ֥עַת tôwlâʻ H8438 “and · worm of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- שָׁנִ֖י shânîy H8144 “scarlet” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְשֵׁ֥שׁ shêsh H8336 “and · fine linen” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וְעִזִּֽים ʻêz H5795 “and · female goats” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן purple H713 occurs in 38 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 7 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
7Topical passages linked to Exodus 35:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 26:1 "Moreover you shall make the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.
- Exodus 26:7–14 "You shall make curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent: eleven curtains shall you make them.
- Exodus 26:31 "You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
- Exodus 26:36 "You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
- Exodus 28:5–6 They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
- Exodus 28:15 "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
- Exodus 28:33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between them round about:
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 12 words vs World English Bible 7. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὑάκινθος πορφύρα κόκκινος διπλοῦς διανήθω καί βύσσος κλώθω καί θρίξ αἴγειος
blue, purple, double scarlet spun, and fine linen spun, and goats' hair,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִכְלָא וְאַרְגְוָנָא וּצְבַע זְהוֹרִי וּבוּץ וּמֵעַזֵי:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְתִכְלָא וְאַרְגְּוָונָא וּצְבַע זְהוֹרֵי וּבוּץ וּמֵעַזֵּי
or hyacinth, or purple, or scarlet, or fine linen, or goats' hair,
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼargâmân (“purple”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “purple” (ʼargâmân) shape what this verse is saying?
- Exodus 25:4 shares the word «purple» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 35:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.