Rashi, on Exod 25:4

“Violet and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,”

“ותכלת AND BLUE PURPLE — wool dyed with the blood of the חלזון (a kind of shell-fish), the colour of which was greenish-blue (Menachot 44a). וארגמן AND RED PURPLE — wool coloured with a kind of dye the name of which is ארגמן ושש — this is what we call LINEN (Yevamot 4b). ועזים is GOATS’ HAIR; therefore Onkelos translates it by וּמְעַזֵּי which denotes something that comes from the goats — not the goats themselves, for the Aramaic translation of עזים is עִזַּיָּא‎.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.