purple: Argaman, a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple.
scarlet: Tolaâth; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic Kermez, which also denotes this colour.
Reciprocal: Exo 26:36 - of blue Exo 27:9 - hangings for Exo 27:16 - of blue Exo 27:21 - without the veil Exo 30:6 - veil Exo 35:12 - the veil Num 3:31 - and the hanging Num 4:5 - they shall Est 1:6 - white