Bible Dictionary · B
Black
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, Lev 13:37; Song 1:5; Song 5:11; and Zech 6:2, Zech 6:6. It is uncertain what the “black marble” of Esth 1:6 was which formed a part of the mosaic pavement.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
