adjective
porfurouem
Strong’sG4210
purple
stem porfurou-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 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.
πορφύρεος, -α, -ον, contr., -οῦς, -ᾶ, -οῦν
(< πορφύρα), [in LXX for אַרְגָּמָן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4210 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpor-foo-rooce'
purpureal, i.e. bluish red
Fromfrom G4209;
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
Attic dialect πορφῠροῦς, ᾶ, οῦν, Aeolic dialect πορφύριος Refs 7th c.BC+; -ύριος also in Refs 1st c.BC+:
I in Refs 8th c.BC+
I.1 of the sea (compare πορφύρω), heaving, surging, [χαράδραι] ἐς.. ἅλα πορφυρέην μεγάλα στενάχουσι ὁέουσαι Refs 8th c.BC+; θάλασσα Alc. [prev. cited]
I.2 of blood, gushing, αἵματι δὲ χθὼν δεύετο π. Refs 8th c.BC+; so, π. θάνατος onrushing death, of death in battle, Refs 5th c.AD+
I.3 of the rainbow, Refs 8th c.BC+; perhaps lurid.
II purple, of stuff, cloths, etc., π. φᾶρος Refs 8th c.BC+; σπάργανα, πτερά, Refs 5th c.BC+; χλανίς, χιτών, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 of human complexion, bright-red, rosy, flushing, π. Ἀφροδίτη Refs 6th c.BC+; χείλη Refs
II.3 purple-clad, in purple, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 neuter plural πορφυρᾶ purple colour or purple spots, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.5 πορφυροῦν (i.e. ἄνθος), τό, Woodfordia floribunda (an Indian shrub), Refs 5th c.BC+
II.6 adverb -ῶς, στύφειν mordant for purple, Refs
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | porfurouos | porfurouas | porfurouem4×πορφυροῦν | porfurouois | porfurouais | porfuroueim |
| object accusative | porfurouon | porfurouan | porfurouoin | porfurouain | ||
| direct address vocative | porfurouor | porfurouar | porfurouoir | porfurouair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | porfurouou | porfurouau | porfuroueu | porfurouoiu | porfurouaiu | porfuroueiu |
| to, for dative | porfurouo | porfuroua | porfuroue | porfurouoi | porfurouai | porfurouei |
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
porfurou 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
porfurouem“purple”subject or objectdirect singular4×
John 19:2… epitithala autou ta kefala, kai himatiem porfurouem peribalala auton,… head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
John 19:5… forarōntos ton akanthinon stefanon kai tem porfurouem himatiem. kai legatō autoi; Idou tos …… the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here …
Revelation 17:4kai tas gunaikas ate peribalorēntas porfurouem kai kokkinem, kai chrusorēntas chrusie kai …The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold …
Revelation 18:16… tas megar, tas peribalorēntar bussinem kai porfurouem kai kokkinem kai chrusorēntar chrusie kai …… city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and …