Definition

purpureal, i.e. bluish red

Etymology

from G4209 (πορφύρα);

Word family

• πορφύρα porphýra

How the KJV renders it

• purple

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.