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title: אַרְגְּוָן — purple · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַרְגְּוָן (710), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: purple. BDB 1906: purple. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַרְגְּוָן

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«אַרְגְּוָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **purple** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 710 · **BDB:** אַרְגְּוָן

### Glosses

purple (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

purple [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/710/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

purple [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/710/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] purple (of Aramaic form, cf. Dn 5:7, 16, 29; perhaps text error) = purple thread 2 Ch 2:6; (+ כַּרְמִיל וּתְכֵלֶת), cf. 2:13; 3:14 sub אַרְגָּמָן.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַרְגְּוָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/710/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 2:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.6/)

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וְעַתָּ֡ה שְֽׁלַֽח־לִ֣י אִישׁ־חָכָ֡ם לַעֲשׂוֹת֩ בַּזָּהָ֨ב וּבַכֶּ֜סֶף וּבַנְּחֹ֣שֶׁת וּבַבַּרְזֶ֗ל וּבָֽאַרְגְּוָן֙ וְכַרְמִ֣יל וּתְכֵ֔לֶת וְיֹדֵ֖עַ לְפַתֵּ֣חַ פִּתּוּחִ֑ים עִם־הַֽחֲכָמִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֤ר עִמִּי֙ בִּֽיהוּדָ֣ה וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֵכִ֖ין דָּוִ֥יד אָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and therefore send to me a.man skillful to work in (the) gold and in (the) silver and in (the) bronze and in (the) iron and in (the) purple and crimson and violet and.\[who\] knows to engrave engravings with the.skillful \[people\] who \[are\].with me in Judah and in Jerusalem whom he.appointed David father my

*JPS 1917:* Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that hath skill to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

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