Greek adjective · G4210
πορφυροῦς
porphyrouspor-foo-rooce'
purple
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: porphyroûs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4210is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4210
purpureal, i.e. bluish red
The King James renders it: purple.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
porphyrous is rendered "purple". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 19:2The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
The first use
The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
John 19:2πορφυροῦν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- purple4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πορφύρα | porphyra | purple cloth | Uses4 |
| πορφυρόπωλις | porphyropolis | dealer in purple | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πορφυροῦν4
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular4A-ASN
John
two uses
The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
- πορφυροῦνporphurounadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: purple
When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
- πορφυροῦνporphurounadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: purple
Revelation
two uses
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
- πορφυροῦνporphurounadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: purple
saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!
- πορφυροῦνporphurounadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: purple
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.