ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑ, πορφυρα
PORPHYRA, porphyra
Sounds Like: por-FY-rah
Translations: purple, purple cloth, purple dye, a purple garment
From the root: ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the color purple, or more specifically, to the valuable purple dye extracted from certain mollusks. It can also denote the cloth or garment dyed with this purple color, which was often associated with royalty, wealth, and high status in ancient times. It is used to describe objects or clothing that are purple.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4209 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 36:10
- 2 Chronicles — 2:7, 2:14
- 1 Maccabees — 11:58
- Song of Solomon — 3:10, 7:5
- Sirach — 45:10
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑΝ — purple, a purple garment, purple dye
- ΠΟΡΦΥΡΑΣ — purple, a purple, of purple, of the purple
- ΠΟΡΦΥΡΕΑ — purple, a purple garment, purple cloth
- ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΣΙΝ — purple, purple dye, purple cloth, a purple garment
- ΠΟΡΦΥΡΟΥ — purple, of purple, a purple garment
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