noun · feminine
porfuras
Strong’sG4209
a purple garment
stem porfur-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πορφύρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX for אַרְגָּמָן, אַרְגְּוָן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4209 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpor-foo'-rah
the "purple" mussel, i.e. (by implication) the red-blue color itself, and finally a garment dyed with it
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jamespurple.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect πορφύρ-η, ἡ, purple-fish, Murex trunculus and Purpura haemastoma, Refs 5th c.BC+
II purple dye obtained from it, Refs 7th c.BC+; used as an application, βρέξαντες ἐν [τῷ νάρδῳ] τὴν π. ἐπιτιθέναι Refs 4th c.AD+
III ={πορφυρίς} 1, Refs 1st c.AD+: in plural, cloths of purple, πορφύρας πατῶν Refs 4th c.BC+: collectively in singular, κωμῳδοῖς.. πορφύραν εἰσφέρων, ὥσπερ οἱ Μεγαρεῖς Refs 4th c.BC+
IV purple stripe or other adornment of a garment, τῆς σκιᾶς τὴν π. πρῶτον ἐνυφαίνουσ᾽, εἶτα μετὰ τὴν π. τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν οὔτε λευκὸν οὔτε π. ἀλλ᾽ ὥσπερ αὐγὴ τῆς κρόκης κεκραμένη Refs 4th c.BC+; π. πλατεῖα, = Latin latus clavus, Refs 4th c.BC+; π. alone, Refs
V metaphorically, σελήνη οὐρανοῦ π. Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | porfuras | porfurais |
| object accusative | porfuran3×πορφύραν | porfurain |
| direct address vocative | porfurar | porfurair |
| of, belonging to genitive | porfurau1×πορφύρας | porfuraiu |
| to, for dative | porfura | porfurai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
porfura is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
porfuran“purple”objectaccusative singular3×
Mark 15:17kai endiduskalō auton porfuran kai peritithalō auto plekarantois akanthinon stefanon;They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of …
Mark 15:20… hote empaizala auto, ekduala auton tan porfuran kai enduala auton teim himatieim teim …… had mocked Him, they removed the purple robe and put His own clothes …
Luke 16:19… de tinos ate plousios, kai endiduskote porfuran kai bussan eufranorōntos kata hēmeran lamprōs.… was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each …
porfurau“purple”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 18:12… timiou kai margaritoiu kai bussineu kai porfurau kai sirikeu kai kokkineu, kai pantem …… stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds …