What Is Purple in the Bible?
Object
Cloth dyed a very costly reddish purple. Only kings and the rich wore it.
Today
Lydia, in Philippi, sold purple cloth. They put a purple cloak on Jesus to mock him.
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 16:14; John 19:5
What the Bible says
Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.
John 19:5
(Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And he saith to them: Behold the Man.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “púrpura”