Colors
Colors
Symbolic uses of
– Black, a symbol of affliction and calamity
Job 3:5; Job 10:20-22; Job 30:26; Psa 107:10-11; Psa 143:3; Isa 5:30; Isa 8:22; Isa 9:19; Isa 24:11; Isa 50:3; Joe 2:6; Joe 2:10; Joe 3:14-15; Amo 5:8; Nah 2:10; Zep 1:14-15; Mat 8:12; Mat 22:13; Mat 25:30; 2Pe 2:4; Jud 1:13; Rev 16:10
– Blue:
b A symbol of deity
Exo 24:10; Jer 10:9; Eze 1:26; Eze 10:1; Exo 25:3-4; Exo 26:1; Exo 28:28; Exo 28:37; Exo 38:18; Exo 39:1-5; Exo 39:21; Exo 39:24; Exo 39:29; Exo 39:31; Num 4:5-12; Num 15:38-40; 2Ch 2:7; 2Ch 2:14; 2Ch 3:14
b A symbol of royalty
Est 8:15; Eze 23:6
– Crimson, red, purple, and scarlet:
b Used in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishings and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement
Exo 25:3-5; Exo 26:1; Exo 26:14; Exo 26:31; Exo 36:35; Exo 36:37; Exo 26:36; Exo 27:16; Exo 38:18; Exo 38:23; Exo 28:4-6; Exo 28:8; Exo 28:15; Exo 28:31; Exo 28:33; Exo 35:5-7; Exo 35:23; Exo 35:25; Exo 35:35; Exo 36:8; Exo 36:19; Exo 39; Lev 14:4; Lev 14:6; Lev 14:49; Lev 14:51-52; Num 4:7-8; Num 4:13; Num 19:2; Num 19:5-6; Isa 63:1-3; Heb 9:19-23
b Symbols of various ideas:
b Of iniquity
Isa 1:18; Rev 17:3-4; Rev 18:12; Rev 18:16
b Of royalty
Jdg 8:26; Dan 5:7; Dan 5:16; Dan 5:29; Mat 27:28
b Of prosperity
2Sa 1:24; Pro 31:21; Lam 4:5
b Of conquest
Nah 2:3; Rev 12:3
– White, a symbol of holiness:
b The high priest’s holy garments were of white linen
Lev 16:4; Lev 16:32
b Choir singers arrayed in white
2Ch 5:12
b Scriptures employing the symbol
Psa 51:7; Ecc 9:8; Isa 1:18; Dan 7:9; Dan 11:35; Dan 12:10; Mat 17:1-2; Mar 9:3; Mat 28:2-3; Rev 1:13-14; Rev 2:17; Rev 3:4-5; Rev 3:18; Rev 4:4; Rev 6:2; Rev 6:11; Rev 7:9; Rev 7:13-14; Rev 15:6; Rev 19:8; Rev 19:11; Rev 19:14; Rev 20:11
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Colors
Colors. Gen 37:3. The art of coloring cloth was brought to great perfection among the Jews, and by the Phnicians and Egyptians. Four artificial colors are spoken of in the Bible: 1. Purple, which was derived from a shellfish native to the Mediterranean Sea. Purple was the royal and noble color, indicative of wealth and station. Jdg 8:26; Est 8:15; Luk 16:19; Rev 17:4. 2. Blue, produced from a similar source, used in the same way, and for the same purposes. Exo 25:4; Est 1:6. 3. Scarlet and crimson appear to express the same color. 4. Vermilion was used in fresco-painting, Eze 23:14, for coloring the idols themselves, and for decorating the walls and beams of houses. Jer 22:14. The natural colors noticed in the Bible are white, black, red, yellow, and green, yet only three colors are sharply definedwhite, black, and red. To show the vagueness of the use of the others, the tint green (translated “yellow” in the A. V.), is applied in the Hebrew to gold, Psa 68:13, and to the leprous spot. Lev 13:49.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Colors
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 including 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.