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Nave's Topical Bible
Smith's Bible Dictionary

Nave's Topical Bible

Colors: Symbolical Uses Of

In the Bible

Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity

Job 3:5; 10:20-22; 30:26; Psa 107:10, 11; 143:3; Isa 5:30; 8:22; 9:19; 24:11; 50:3; Joe 2:6, 10; 3:14, 15; Amo 5:8; Nah 2:10; Zep 1:14, 15; Mat 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; 2Pe 2:4; Jud 1:13; Rev 16:10

Colors: Blue: Symbol of Deity

Exd 24:10; 25:3, 4; 26:1; 28:28, 37; 38:18; 39:1-5, 21, 24, 29, 31; Num 4:5-12; 15:38-40; 2Ch 2:7, 14; 3:14.

For additional reference, see passages below under CRIMSON.

SYMBOL OF ROYALTY,

Est 8:15; Eze 23:6.

See CRIMSON, below.

Colors: Crimson, Red, Purple, and Scarlet: Symbols of Various Ideas

Of iniquity,

Isa 1:18; Rev 17:3, 4; 18:12, 16;

of royalty,

Jdg 8:26; Dan 5:7, 16, 29; Mat 27:28;

prosperity,

2Sa 1:24; Pro 31:21; Lam 4:5;

conquest,

Nah 2:3; Rev 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.

Exd 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; Lev 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; Num 4:7, 8, 13; 19:2, 5, 6; Isa 63:1-3; Hbr 9:19-23

Colors: White: Symbol of Holiness

The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen,

Lev 16:4, 32.

Choir singers were arrayed in white,

2Ch 5:12.

SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL:

Psa 51:7; Ecc 9:8; Isa 1:18; Dan 7:9; 11:35; 12:10; Mat 17:1, 2; 28:2, 3; Mar 9:3; Rev 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.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Colors:

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.

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