porphura: purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth Original Word: πορφύρα, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: porphura
Phonetic Spelling: (por-foo'-rah)
Short Definition: a purple garment
Definition: a purple garment, indicating power or wealth.
4209 porphýra – purple, symbolic of "royal status" (L & N, 1, 79.38). There were three familiar shades of purple in the ancient world: deep violet, deep scarlet (or crimson), and deep blue (WP, 2, 220). Prov 31:22 associates purple with "godly (ideal) femininity," i.e. "righteous femaleness." Word Origin
probably from a redupl. derivation of phuró (to mix dry with wet)
Definition
purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth
NASB Word Usage
purple (3), purple robe (1).NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
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All rights reserved Lockman.org purpleOf Latin origin; the "purple" mussel, i.e. (by implication) the red-blue color itself, and finally a garment dyed with it -- purple.
πόρνην — 2 Occ.
πόρνης — 2 Occ.
πορνῶν — 2 Occ.
πόρνοι — 2 Occ.
πόρνοις — 4 Occ.
πόρνος — 3 Occ.
πόρνους — 1 Occ.
πόρρω — 3 Occ.
πορρώτερον — 1 Occ.
πόρρωθεν — 2 Occ.
πορφύρας — 1 Occ.
πορφυροῦν — 4 Occ.
πορφυρόπωλις — 1 Occ.
ποσάκις — 3 Occ.
πόσει — 1 Occ.
πόσις — 2 Occ.
πόσα — 2 Occ.
πόσαι — 1 Occ.
πόσας — 1 Occ.
πόσην — 1 Occ.
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Strong's Greek 4209
4 Occurrences
πορφύραν — 3 Occ.
πορφύρας — 1 Occ.
Mark 15:17 N-AFS
BIB: ἐνδιδύσκουσιν αὐτὸν πορφύραν καὶ περιτιθέασιν
NAS: They dressed Him up in purple, and after twisting
KJV: him with purple, and
INT: they put on him purple [garment] and placed onMark 15:20 N-AFS
BIB: αὐτὸν τὴν πορφύραν καὶ ἐνέδυσαν
NAS: Him, they took the purple robe off
KJV: they took off the purple from him,
INT: him the purple [garment] and put on Luke 16:19 N-AFS
BIB: καὶ ἐνεδιδύσκετο πορφύραν καὶ βύσσον
NAS: and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen,
KJV: was clothed in purple and
INT: and he was clothed in purple and fine linen Revelation 18:12 N-GFS
BIB: βυσσίνου καὶ πορφύρας καὶ σιρικοῦ
NAS: and fine linen and purple and silk
KJV: fine linen, and purple, and silk,
INT: of fine linen and of purple and of silk 4 Occurrences
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