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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1"/><title>Strong's Greek: 4209. πορφύρα (porphura) -- Purple</title></title><link rel="canonical" href="http://biblehub.com/greek/4209.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/strongsnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/interlinear/vmenus/acts/2-9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmstrongs/greek/4209.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's</a> > <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Greek</a> > 4209</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../greek/4208.htm" title="4208">◄</a> 4209. porphura <a href="../greek/4210.htm" title="4210">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">porphura: Purple</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">πορφύρα</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Feminine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>porphura<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>por-FOO-rah<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(por-foo'-rah)<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Purple<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>a purple garment, indicating power or wealth.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from a foreign origin, likely from the Semitic languages, related to the Hebrew word אַרְגָּמָן (argaman).<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span> - <b>Strong's Hebrew 713 (argaman):</b> Refers to purple, often used in the context of royal or priestly garments in the Old Testament.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The term "porphura" refers to the color purple, specifically a dye or fabric of this color. In the ancient world, purple was a symbol of wealth, royalty, and high status due to the costly and labor-intensive process required to produce the dye. The dye was extracted from the murex shellfish, making it rare and expensive.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the Greco-Roman world, purple garments were associated with nobility and authority. The process of making purple dye was complex and involved harvesting thousands of murex snails to produce a small amount of dye. This exclusivity made purple a color of prestige and power. In the Roman Empire, laws regulated who could wear purple, often reserving it for emperors and high-ranking officials.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>4209</b> <i>porphýra</i> – purple, <i>symbolic</i> of "royal status" (<i>L & N</i>, 1, 79.38). There were three familiar shades of purple in the ancient world: deep violet, deep scarlet (or crimson), and deep blue (<i>WP</i>, 2, 220). </p><p class="discovery">Prov 31:22 associates <i>purple</i> with "<i>godly</i> (<i>ideal</i>)<i> femininity</i>," i.e. "righteous <i>femaleness</i>."</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>probably from a redupl. derivation of phuró (to mix dry with wet)<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>purple (3), purple robe (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 4209: πορφύρα</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">πορφύρα</span></span>, <span class="greek2">πορφύρας</span>, <span class="greek2">ἡ</span>, the <span class="manuref">Sept.</span> for <span class="hebrew">אַרְגָמָן</span>; <p><span class="textheading">1.</span> <span class="accented">the purple-fish,</span> a species of shell-fish or mussel: (<span class="abbreviation">Aeschylus</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Sophocles</span>), <span class="abbreviation">Isocrates</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Aristotle</span>, others; add 1 Macc. 4:23, on which see Grimm; (cf. <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span>, under the word <REFERENCE_WORK:Smith's Bible Dictionary><TOPIC:Colors> 1). <p><span class="textheading">2.</span> <span class="accented">a fabric colored with the purple dye, a garment made from purple cloth</span> (so from <span class="abbreviation">Aeschylus</span> down): <a href="/interlinear/mark/15-17.htm">Mark 15:17, 20</a>; <a href="/interlinear/luke/16-19.htm">Luke 16:19</a>; <a href="/interlinear/revelation/17-4.htm">Revelation 17:4</a> <span class="manuref">Rec.</span>; <BIBLE/CHAPTER_VERSE:Revelation 18:12>.<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>purple<p>Of Latin origin; the "purple" mussel, i.e. (by implication) the red-blue color itself, and finally a garment dyed with it -- purple. <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>πορφύρα πορφυραν πορφύραν πορφυρας πορφύρας πορφυρίδων πορφυρίωνα πορφυρού porphuran porphuras porphyran porphýran porphyras porphýras<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/mark/15-17.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 15:17</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular">N-AFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/15.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἐνδιδύσκουσιν αὐτὸν <b>πορφύραν</b> καὶ περιτιθέασιν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/mark/15.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> They dressed <span class="itali">Him up in purple,</span> and after twisting<br><a href="/kjvs/mark/15.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> him <span class="itali">with purple,</span> and<br><a href="/interlinear/mark/15-17.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> they put on him <span class="itali">purple [garment]</span> and placed on<p><b><a href="/text/mark/15-20.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 15:20</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular">N-AFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/15.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">αὐτὸν τὴν <b>πορφύραν</b> καὶ ἐνέδυσαν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/mark/15.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> Him, they took <span class="itali">the purple robe</span> off<br><a href="/kjvs/mark/15.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> they took off <span class="itali">the purple</span> from him,<br><a href="/interlinear/mark/15-20.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> him the <span class="itali">purple [garment]</span> and put on<p><b><a href="/text/luke/16-19.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 16:19</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular">N-AFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/16.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ ἐνεδιδύσκετο <b>πορφύραν</b> καὶ βύσσον</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/16.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> and he habitually dressed <span class="itali">in purple</span> and fine linen,<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/16.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> was clothed <span class="itali">in purple</span> and<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/16-19.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and he was clothed in <span class="itali">purple</span> and fine linen<p><b><a href="/text/revelation/18-12.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Revelation 18:12</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular">N-GFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/revelation/18.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">βυσσίνου καὶ <b>πορφύρας</b> καὶ σιρικοῦ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/revelation/18.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> and fine linen <span class="itali">and purple</span> and silk<br><a href="/kjvs/revelation/18.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> fine linen, and <span class="itali">purple,</span> and silk,<br><a href="/interlinear/revelation/18-12.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> of fine linen and <span class="itali">of purple</span> and of silk<p><b><a href="/greek/4209.htm">Strong's Greek 4209</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_4209.htm">4 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/porphuran_4209.htm">πορφύραν — 3 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/porphuras_4209.htm">πορφύρας — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/4208.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="4208"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="4208" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/4210.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="4210"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="4210" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>