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# תְּכֵלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8504

**violet** — used 49 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

violet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8504/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּכֵ֫לֶת: n.f. violet violet thread stuff [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8504/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. violet, i.e. violet thread and stuff; 𝔊; usually ὑάκινθος, ὑακίνθινος; v. ThatcherHast.DB Colours (NH = BH; 𝔗 תִּכְלָא, תַּכְלָא, תְּכֵילְתָּא);— violet thread (spun, Ex 35:25; woven, 39:3): in Ex (P) of hangings of tabern., ephod, etc., ת׳ + אַרְגָּמָן, תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי (q.v.; often also שֵׁשׁ, זהב), Ex 25:4; 26:1; 28:5, 6; 28:33; 35:25 + 20 times; of temple hangings (+ אַרְגָּמָן, אַרְגְּוָן, כַּרְמִיל, בּוּץ) 2 Ch 2:6, 13, 14; loops or cords of ת׳ (alone) Ex 26:4; 28:28, 31, 37; 36:11; 39:21, 22, 31; Nu 15:38 (all P). palace hangings in Shushan, + חוּר Est 1:6. violet stuff, fabric; לְבוּשֵׁי ת׳ Ez 23:6, גְּלוֹמֵי ת׳ וְרִקְמָה 27:24; ת׳ וְאַרְגָּמָן לְבוּשָׁם Je 10:9; also in trade Ez 27:7 (+ אַרְגָּמָן, שֵׁשׁ בְּרִקְמָה), cf. בֶּגֶד ת׳ for covering sacred utensils Nu 4:6, 7, 9, 11, 12 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: violet stuff (19); of violet stuff (16); stuff (6).

## In the verses

[Exodus 28:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.31/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ אֶת־מְעִ֥יל הָאֵפ֖וֹד כְּלִ֥יל תְּכֵֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make (et) the.robe of the.ephod an.entirety of.violet.stuff

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

[Exodus 39:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.22/#tree)

וַיַּ֛עַשׂ אֶת־מְעִ֥יל הָאֵפֹ֖ד מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה אֹרֵ֑ג כְּלִ֖יל תְּכֵֽלֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.made (et) the.robe of the.ephod \[the\].work of.a.weaver an.entirety of.violet.stuff

*JPS 1917:* And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8504.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8504/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).