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Colours in the Bible .....and their meaning... Black |
Black signifies the negative aspects of human life, for example terror, death, disease, famine, evil, sorrow and mourning. Several Hebrew words are used for example:
The Greek word 'gnophos' means blackness, darkness or gloom The colour black is associated with:
However there is an exception where black refers to healthy hair -Song 5:11; Matt 5:36 |
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Related Symbols: Judgement |
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| In scripture we see a connection between the colour black or darkness with judgement. | "But if the scale appears to be at a standstill, and there is black hair grown up in it, the scale has healed. He is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean." Lev 13:37 | |||||||||||||||||||
| "May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it. As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months. Job 3:5-6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| See also: Jeremiah 14:1-2; Isaiah 59:9; Heb 12:18; 2Pet 2:17 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Related Symbols: Sackcloth |
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| The act of mourning is often connected with and symbolised by the wearing of sackcloth. | "I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering." Isa 50:3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood." Rev 6:12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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See also: Gen 37:34 |
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