Lexical Summary argaman: purple, red-purple Original Word: אַרְגָּמָןTransliteration: argaman Phonetic Spelling: (ar-gaw-mawn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: purple, red-purple Meaning: purple, red-purple Strong's Concordance purple Of foreign origin; purple (the color or the dyed stuff) -- purple. Brown-Driver-Briggs H713. argaman אַרְגָּמָן noun [masculine] purple, red-purple, i.e. purple thread & cloth (Assyrian argamannu COT Exodus 25:4, Arabic , Aramaic , compare אַרְגְּוָן above; etymology dubious; possibly Sanskrit râgaman, adjective red, reddish, from râga, red colour, so Benary compare Thes Add111 Rob-Ges; see MV; Thes earlier, from רגם; but probably loan-word, compare also LagBN 205; Persian is also cited by PS) — form always as above — 1 purple thread, compare especially Exodus 35:25; 39:3; Esther 1:6; a. mostly Exodus (P) with reference to the hangings of tabernacle, the ephod, etc.; seldom alone; with תְּכֵלֶת, violet (q. v.), שָׁנִי תּוֺלַעַת, (מָשְׁזָב) שֵׁשׁ, (also עִזִּים) Exodus 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36; 27:16; 35:8, 25, 35; 36:8, 35, 37; 38:18, 23; 39:24 (on text see Di) 39:29; with these + זָהָב 28:5-6, 8, 15; 39:2; 39:3; 39:5; 39:8; omitted מ ׳שֵׁשׁ 28:33; 39:1; also of temple-hangings, with בּוּץ תְּכֵלֶת, & כַּרְמִיל2 Chronicles 3:14; compare 2:13 (see also 2:6 see below אַרְגְּוָן). b. as indicating wealth & luxury of Tyre, c. תְּכֵלֶת רִקְמָה, שֵׁשׁ, Ezekiel 27:7; with רִקְמָה & בּוּץ 27:16 (as articles of commerce); also in Persia, with בּוּץ Esther 1:6. 2 purple cloth, chiefly of garments, א ׳בֶּגֶד Numbers 4:13; Judges 8:26; וְא בּוּץ ׳וְתַכְרִיךְ Esther 8:15, וְא ׳שֵׁשׁ לְבוּשָׁהּ Proverbs 31:22; וְא ׳תְּכֵלָת לְבוּשָׁם Jeremiah 10:9; also א ׳מֶרְכָּבוֺ Cant 3:10; in simile, of woman's hair Cant 7:6. |
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