Dyed Cloth

Cloth that has been colored by humans, often highly valued.

About Dyed Cloth

Dye was a substance used to color materials, especially textiles. Dyes came from minerals, plants, insects (for example, all those based on the Hebrew root tla‘ were from a small worm), and sea animals (in particular, certain mollusks).

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Key References

Exodus 25:5

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

Exodus 35:23

Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.

Judges 5:30

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’

All Scripture References (8)

Exodus (6)
Exodus 25:5

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

Exodus 26:14

Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

Exodus 35:7

ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood;

Exodus 35:23

Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.

Exodus 36:19

Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

Exodus 39:34

the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;

Judges (1)
Judges 5:30

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’

Nahum (1)
Nahum 2:4

The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.