argaman · purple

What it means

argaman (אַרְגָּמָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “purple”.

Thread or cloth dyed purple, a costly dark red.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Costly dark red cloth.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×26
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Esther×2
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Exodus 25:4

  blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, and goats' hair;

• Exodus 26:1

  The dwelling you shall make of ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, you shall make them.

• Exodus 26:31

  You shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, it shall be made.

• Exodus 26:36

  You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 28:5

  They shall take the gold, the blue, the purple, the scarlet yarn, and the fine linen.

• Exodus 28:6

  They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 28:8

  And the woven band of its ephod, which is on it, shall be of the same workmanship, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen.

• Exodus 28:15

  You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skilled craftsman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, scarlet yarn, and fine twisted linen you shall make it.

• Exodus 28:33

  On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, on its hem all around, and bells of gold between them all around:

• Exodus 35:6

  and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair;

• Exodus 35:23

  And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, brought them.

• Exodus 35:25

  And every woman wise of heart spun with her hands, and they brought what they had spun: the blue and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

• Exodus 35:35

  He has filled them with wisdom of heart to do all the work of the engraver, and of the designer, and of the embroiderer in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, doers of every work and devisers of designs.

• Exodus 36:8

  And all the wise of heart among those who did the work made the dwelling with ten curtains of twisted fine linen and blue and purple and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, he made them.

• Exodus 36:35

  And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; the work of a skilled craftsman, he made it with cherubim.

• Exodus 36:37

  And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer,

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 38:23

  And with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a designer, and an embroiderer in blue and in purple and in scarlet and in fine linen.

• Exodus 39:1

  And from the blue and the purple and the scarlet they made woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place; and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Exodus 39:2

  And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 39:3

  And they hammered out the sheets of gold, and he cut them into threads to work them into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the fine linen, the work of a skilled craftsman.

• Exodus 39:5

  And the woven band of its ephod that was on it was of one piece with it, of the same workmanship, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Exodus 39:8

  And he made the breastpiece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twisted fine linen.

• Exodus 39:24

  And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, twisted.

• Exodus 39:29

  and the sash of twisted fine linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of an embroiderer, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 4:13

  And they shall remove the ashes from the altar and spread over it a cloth of purple.

• Judges 8:26

  The weight of the earrings of gold that he requested was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, the pendants, and the garments of purple that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the necklaces that were on the necks of their camels.

• 2 Chronicles 2:14

  the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre; he knows how to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in wood, in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, and to engrave any engraving and to devise any design that may be assigned to him, with your wise men and the wise men of my lord David your father.

• 2 Chronicles 3:14

  He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and put on it cherubim.

• Esther 1:6

  There was white cloth, cotton and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to rings of silver and columns of marble; couches of gold and silver on a pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and dark stone.

• Esther 8:15

  And Mordecai went out from before the king in a royal robe of blue and white cloth, and with a great golden crown and a mantle of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted for joy and was glad.

• Proverbs 31:22

  Coverings she makes for herself; fine linen and purple are her clothing.

• Song of Songs 3:10

  Its pillars he made of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple, its interior embroidered with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.

• Song of Songs 7:5

  Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the tresses of your head like purple; a king is held captive in the locks.

• Jeremiah 10:9

  Silver beaten flat is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith; blue and purple is their clothing, the work of wise men all of them.

• Ezekiel 27:7

  Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt was your sail, to serve you as a banner; blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah was your awning.

• Ezekiel 27:16

  Aram was your merchant because of the abundance of your works; with turquoise, purple, embroidery, fine linen, coral, and ruby they paid for your wares.