- צבע
- צֶבַעm. (b. h.; preced.) dye, color; dyed material. Sifra Bhar. ch. I לצבוע בה צ׳ to use it for dyeing. Arakh.VI, 5 (24a) צ׳ שצבעו לשמן (not שצבען) dyed cloth which he had dyed for them (his wife and children). Mikv. VII, 3 מי הצ׳ dye-water. Num. R. s. 2; a. fr.Pl. צְבָעִים, צְבָעִין. Ib. וצבע מפה שלו דומה לי״ב צ׳ and the color of his (Benjamins) flag was like the twelve colors (combined); a. e.V. צוֹבַעִ.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.