argevan
אַרְגְּוָן
HebrewH0710“purple”
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2Ch 2:7(6)
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אַרְגָּמָן“purple”Argaman is the standard Hebrew word for the costly red-purple dye taken from Mediterranean sea-snails, and for the wool or cloth colored with it. It is by far the most common spelling of this word in the Bible, appearing dozens of times, mostly in the instructions for building the Tabernacle. A shorter, Aramaic-flavored spelling of the same word, argevan, shows up a handful of times in Daniel and once in Chronicles; it names exactly the same dye and cloth, not a different one.
אַרְגְּוָןAramaic“purple”This is the Aramaic form of argevan, the byform spelling of argaman, the common word for costly red-purple dye and the cloth colored with it. It appears in the Aramaic chapters of Daniel, where Belshazzar promises to clothe Daniel in it as a mark of high rank. It names the same dye and cloth as argaman; only the language and spelling differ.
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