Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor). 2. (n.) The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum. 3. (n.) In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. 4. (n.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera. 5. (n.) Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.

Multi-Version Concordance Violet (3 Occurrences) 2 Chronicles 2:7 Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave all manner of engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. (See NAS) 2 Chronicles 2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. (See NAS) 2 Chronicles 3:14 He made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim. (See NAS)