G4209 – porphura – πορφύρα – purple
- Strong’s ID:
- G4209
- Greek Word:
- πορφύρα
- Transliteration:
- porphura
- Pronunciation:
- por-foo’-rah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 5
- Search:
- Find “porphura” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
of Latin origin; the “purple” mussel, i.e. (by implication) the red-blue color itself, and finally a garment dyed with it:—purple.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) the purple fish, a species of shell fish or mussel
2) a fabric coloured with purple dye, a garment made from purple cloth
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.