blue

This color is generally associated with purple (Exodus 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.).

It is supposed to have been obtained from a shellfish of the Mediterranean, the Helix ianthina of Linnaeus.

The robe of the high priest’s ephod was to be all of this color (Exodus 28:31), also the loops of the curtains (26:4) and the ribbon of the breastplate (28:28).

Blue cloths were, also, made for various sacred purposes (Numbers 4:6-7, 9, 11-12).

More information

• Colors in the Bible
• Answers about dye and dyeing in the Bible?
• Amorites, blue eyes
• Ark of the Covenant wrapped in blue cloth
• blue river
• breastplate
• Capernaum—blue plaster
• curtain
• blue curtain, Holy of Holies
• ephod
• high priest
• jacinth
• loop
• marble
• me’il
• Nile
• sapphire
• Shihor-Libnath (blue river)
• Solomon’s Temple
• tabernacle