Topic
Colors
126 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 24:10Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- Exodus 25:3Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
- Exodus 25:3–5Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Exodus 25:4Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
- Exodus 26:1Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 26:14Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
- Exodus 26:31Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
¶ And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
- Exodus 26:36Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
- Exodus 27:16Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
¶ And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 28:4–8Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s…
- Exodus 28:15Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
¶ And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
- Exodus 28:28Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
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- Exodus 28:31 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 28:33 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 28:37 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Exodus 35:5–7 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 35:23 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 35:25 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 35:35 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 36:8 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 36:19 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 36:35 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 36:37 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 38:18 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Exodus 38:23 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 39:1–5 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Exodus 39:2 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 39:3 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 39:5 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Exodus 39:21 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Exodus 39:24 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Exodus 39:29 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Exodus 39:31 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Leviticus 14:4 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Leviticus 14:6 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Leviticus 14:49 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Leviticus 14:51 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Leviticus 14:52 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Leviticus 16:4 Nave WHITE: SYMBOL OF HOLINESS — The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen
- Leviticus 16:32 Nave WHITE: SYMBOL OF HOLINESS — The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen
- Numbers 4:5–12 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Numbers 4:7 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Numbers 4:8 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Numbers 4:13 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Numbers 15:38–40 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Numbers 19:2 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Numbers 19:5 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Numbers 19:6 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Judges 8:26 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of royalty
- 2 Samuel 1:24 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Prosperity
- 2 Chronicles 2:7 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- 2 Chronicles 3:14 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 Nave WHITE: SYMBOL OF HOLINESS — Choir singers were arrayed in white
- Esther 8:15 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY — SYMBOL OF ROYALTY
- Job 3:5 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Job 10:20–22 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Job 30:26 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Psalms 51:7 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Psalms 107:10 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Psalms 107:11 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Psalms 143:3 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Proverbs 31:21 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Prosperity
- Ecclesiastes 9:8 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Isaiah 1:18 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of iniquity
- Isaiah 5:30 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Isaiah 8:22 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Isaiah 9:19 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Isaiah 24:11 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Isaiah 50:3 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Isaiah 63:1–3 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- Jeremiah 10:9 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Lamentations 4:5 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Prosperity
- Ezekiel 1:26 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Ezekiel 10:1 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
- Ezekiel 23:6 Nave BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY — SYMBOL OF ROYALTY
- Daniel 5:7 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of royalty
- Daniel 5:16 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of royalty
- Daniel 5:29 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of royalty
- Daniel 7:9 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Daniel 11:35 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Daniel 12:10 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Joel 2:6 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Joel 2:10 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Joel 3:14 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Joel 3:15 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Amos 5:8 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Nahum 2:3 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Conquest
- Nahum 2:10 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Zephaniah 1:14 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Zephaniah 1:15 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Matthew 8:12 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Matthew 17:1 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Matthew 17:2 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Matthew 22:13 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Matthew 25:30 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Matthew 27:28 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of royalty
- Matthew 28:2 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Matthew 28:3 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Mark 9:3 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Hebrews 9:19–23 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
- 2 Peter 2:4 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Jude 1:1 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Revelation 1:13 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 1:14 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 2:17 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 3:4 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 3:5 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 3:18 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 4:4 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 6:2 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 6:11 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 7:9 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 7:13 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 7:14 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 12:3 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Conquest
- Revelation 15:6 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 16:10 Nave BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
- Revelation 17:3 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of iniquity
- Revelation 17:4 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of iniquity
- Revelation 18:12 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of iniquity
- Revelation 18:16 Nave CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS — Of iniquity
- Revelation 19:8 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 19:11 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 19:14 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
- Revelation 20:11 Nave SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
The terms relative to color, occurring in the Bible, may be arranged in two classes, the first including those applied to the description of natural objects, the second those artificial mixtures which were employed in dyeing or painting. The purple and the blue were derived from a small shellfish found in the Mediterranean, and were very costly, and hence they were the royal colors. Red , both scarlet and crimson, was derived from an insect resembling the cochineal. The natural colors noticed in the Bible are white, black, red, yellow and green. The only fundamental color of which the Hebrews appear to have had a clear conception was red ; and even this is not very often noticed.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 130 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Symbolical uses of
- → BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY Job 3:5; 10:20-22; 30:26; Ps 107:10,11; 143:3; Isa 5:30; 8:22; 9:19; 24:11; 50:3; Joe 2:6,10; 3:14,15; Am 5:8; Na 2:10; Zep 1:14,15; Mt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; 2Pe 2:4; Jude 1:13; Re 16:10
- → BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY Ex 24:10; 25:3,4; 26:1; 28:28,37; 38:18; 39:1-5,21,24,29,31; Nu 4:5-12; 15:38-40; 2Ch 2:7,14; 3:14; Jer 10:9; Eze 1:26; 10:1
- → CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS
- Of iniquity Isa 1:18; Re 17:3,4; 18:12,16
- Of royalty Jud 8:26; Da 5:7,16,29; Mt 27:28
- Prosperity 2Sa 1:24; Pr 31:21; La 4:5
- Conquest Na 2:3; Re 12:3
- These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement Ex 25:3-5; 26:1,14,31,36; 36:8,19,35,37; 27:16; 28:4-8,15,31,33; 35:5-7,23,25,35; 38:18,23; 39:2,3,5,29; Le 14:4,6,49,51,52; Nu 4:7,8,13; 19:2,5,6; Isa 63:1-3; Heb 9:19-23
- → WHITE: SYMBOL OF HOLINESS
- → SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL Ps 51:7; Ec 9:8; Isa 1:18; Da 7:9; 11:35; 12:10; Mt 17:1,2; 28:2,3; Mr 9:3; Re 1:13,14; 2:17; 3:4,5,18; 4:4; 6:2,11; 7:9,13,14; 15:6; 19:8,11,14; 20:11
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.