- πορφύρα
- πορφύρα, ας, ἡ (Aeschyl., Hdt.et al.; ins, pap, LXX; TestAbr A 4 p. 80, 21 [Stone p. 8]; TestLevi 8:7; JosAs, EpArist; Philo, Congr. Erud. Gr. 117; Jos., Bell. 6, 390; loanw. in rabb.) the purple fish (a shell-fish, murex), then a purple dye obtained fr. it, finally the cloth, clothing, etc. In our lit. only in the last-named sense (so Aeschyl. et al.; Aristot., Polyb., Lucian; Jos., Ant. 8, 185; EpArist 320; LXX) purple (cloth) w. βύσσος (q.v.) Lk 16:19; GJs 10:(2), twice w. κόκκινον (s. the Bodmer pap and deStrycker’s ed. on this disputed text); 12:1. ἔλαβεν τὴν π. … καὶ ἧλκεν τὴν π. 11:1. Purple garment (Appian, Liby. 66, 297) w. τὸ βύσσινον (s. βύσσινος and cp. JosAs 5:6 πορφύρα ἐκ βύσσου χρυσοϋφής) Rv 18:12. Cp. 17:4 v.l. (w. κόκκινον). Of the red garment which the soldiers put on Jesus Mk 15:17, 20; GPt 3:7 (Appian, Bell. Civ. 2, 150 the Roman soldier’s cloak is called ἡ πορφύρα; s. χλαμύς.—Dio Chrys. 4, 71 and Jos., Ant. 11, 256; 257 of a royal purple garment; cp. 1 Macc 10:62).—Lit. s. κόκκινος, also RGradwohl, Die Farben im AT, Beih. ZAW 83, ’63, 66–73 and lit.; Pauly-W. XXIII 2200–220; Kl. Pauly IV 1243f; BHHW III 1532f; ABD s.v. ‘Purple’ (V 557–60) and ‘Zoology (Animal Profiles)’ (VI 1149f); New Docs 2, 25–27 (lit.); CHemer, New Docs 3, 53–55; also Hemer, Acts 114; HStulz, Die Farbe Purpur im frühen Griechentum ’90.—Schmidt, Syn. III 44–51. DELG. M-M.
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