Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H711
אַרְגְּוָן
argevanarg-ev-awn'
purple
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼargᵉvân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H711is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H711
{purple}
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
argevan is rendered "purple". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 5:7The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
Daniel 5:7אַרְגְּוָנָ֣א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the purple3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַרְבַּע | arba | four | Uses318 |
| אַרְבָּעִים | arbaim | forty | Uses136 |
| אַרְגָּמָן | argaman | purple | Uses38 |
| אַרְמוֹן | armon | citadel: palace | Uses32 |
| אַרְבֶּה | arbeh | locust | Uses24 |
| אַרְיֵה | aryeh | lion | Uses10 |
| אַרְבַּע | arba | four | Uses8 |
| אַרְכִּי | Arki | Archite | Uses6 |
| אַרְגָּז | argaz | box | Uses3 |
| אַרְכָּא | arka | lengthening | Uses2 |
| אַרְוָדִי | Arvadi | Arvadite | Uses2 |
| אַרְנֶבֶת | arnebeth | hare | Uses2 |
and 7 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings 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
- אַרְגְּוָנָ֣א2
- אַרְגְּוָנָ֔א1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)3ANcbsd/Ta
Daniel
three uses
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- אַרְגְּוָנָ֣אʾargevana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the purple
But I have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Therefore, if you can read this inscription and give me its interpretation, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- אַרְגְּוָנָ֣אʾargevana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the purple
Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and proclaimed him the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
- אַרְגְּוָנָ֔אʾargevana'noun · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: the purple
The letters
Gematria 260· 910 mispar gadol
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.