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Gematria of Purple

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “purple” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 42 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
42
Distinct values
2

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “purple”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

אַרְגָּמָןʼargâmân×38 in the TanakhH713

purple (the color or the dyed stuff)

Standard 294 →Gadol 944Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 51Atbash 622Perati 44,110Milui 890

First appearance ·Exodus 25:4שמות כה:דוְאַרְגָּמָן

See all 3 occurrences of the spelling ארגמן →

אַרְגְּוָןʼargᵉvân×3 in the TanakhH711

{purple}

Standard 260 →Gadol 910Katan 17Siduri (ordinal) 44Atbash 692Perati 42,546Milui 823

First appearance ·Daniel 5:7דניאל ה:זאַרְגְּוָנָא

אַרְגְּוָןʼargᵉvân×1 in the TanakhH710

purple

Standard 260 →Gadol 910Katan 17Siduri (ordinal) 44Atbash 692Perati 42,546Milui 823

First appearance ·2 Chronicles 2:6דברי הימים ב ב:ווּבָֽאַרְגְּוָן

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What is the gematria of purple?

The Tanakh renders “purple” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ארגמן = 294 and ארגון = 260.

How do you say purple in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “purple”; the most frequent are ארגמן (ʼargâmân), 38 times; ארגון (ʼargᵉvân), 4 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.