Scarlet describes a color or the colored material in its sentence. Matthew places a scarlet robe in the soldiers' abusive mockery of Jesus, with stripping, spitting and blows making the action unmistakable.
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Scarlet describes a color or the colored material in its sentence. Matthew places a scarlet robe in the soldiers' abusive mockery of Jesus, with stripping, spitting and blows making the action unmistakable.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include scarlet (4), a scarlet (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 27:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (4), Hebrews (1), Matthew (1).
Scarlet describes a color or the colored material in its sentence. Matthew places a scarlet robe in the soldiers' abusive mockery of Jesus, with stripping, spitting and blows making the action unmistakable. Hebrews names scarlet wool in its recalled covenant scene. Revelation uses scarlet for a beast, clothing and traded goods, while its own surrounding words name blasphemy, abominations and the city's fall.
The color does not independently supply those moral judgments. Keep the object, actor and stated evaluation in view rather than making every scarlet garment guilty or assigning a present person to a visionary figure because of clothing. The six Greek witnesses concern different roles, and their meaning must remain attached to narrative action, covenant argument or the supplied vision without an added dye-history claim or compulsory ritual.
A mockery robe, covenant wool, a visionary beast, clothing and cargo account for six Greek references. The described object and surrounding action determine the color's role and evaluation.
They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.
The soldiers put a scarlet robe on Jesus before explicit mockery, spitting and blows, so the abusive action comes from the account rather than the color alone.
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
Scarlet wool appears among the materials in Hebrews' recalled covenant scene, within its argument about blood rather than a command to reenact every material use.
And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
The scarlet beast is described with blasphemous names in the vision, retaining its stated features without identifying a contemporary person from a matching color.
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Greek word. Deep red dye from insect cochineal, symbolizing royalty, sin, or judgment in biblical imagery
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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Color describes an object; the passage evaluates its use. Matthew's soldiers humiliate Jesus with a scarlet robe and then mock, spit and strike, so the wrongdoing is explicitly narrated. Hebrews includes scarlet wool within its covenant-blood argument, not an instruction that every later prayer or service needs that material. Revelation's scarlet beast and garments belong to a vision with named blasphemy and abominations, while its later cargo list places scarlet among many goods.
Those supplied details must stay visible without becoming a technique for labeling living people from clothes. Mark's separate mockery account uses purple language and should retain its own wording rather than be silently rewritten to match Matthew. Teach actual actions, arguments and visionary descriptions, avoiding unsupported explanations of dye manufacture or a universal moral status for a color.
Matt.27.28
The licensed Greek adjective describes scarlet; some sentences name colored cloth without a separate expressed garment noun. The context supplies robe, wool, beast or clothing. Matthew's scarlet and Mark's purple wording should both remain visible, without claiming the color terms alone solve every account difference.
Isaiah 1:18 compares sins with scarlet within an appeal that also calls for justice, correction of oppression and defense of the fatherless and widow. That separate Hebrew comparison receives its meaning from the named sins and promised cleansing, not from a universal accusation against colored cloth. Reading it beside the Greek witnesses preserves the comparison while refusing to identify current people as visionary enemies because of appearance.