Topic
Black
11 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Leviticus 13:31Easton
And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:
- Leviticus 13:37Easton
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
- Deuteronomy 32:10Easton
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
- Esther 1:6Easton
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
- Psalms 17:8Easton
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- Proverbs 7:2Easton
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Proverbs 7:9Easton
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- Song of Songs 1:5Easton
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
- Song of Songs 5:11Easton
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
- Zechariah 6:2Easton
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
- Zechariah 6:6Easton
The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 11 references
Properly the absence of all colour. In Prov. 7:9 the Hebrew word means, as in the margin of the Revised Version, “the pupil of the eye.” It is translated “apple” of the eye in Deut. 32:10; Ps. 17:8; Prov. 7:2. It is a different word which is rendered “black” in Lev. 13:31,37; Cant. 1:5; 5:11; and Zech. 6:2, 6. It is uncertain what the “black marble” of Esther 1:6 was which formed a part of the mosaic pavement.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
See COLORS.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.