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Colors
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- Symbolical uses of
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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; Joel 2:6, 10; 3:14, 15; Amos 5:8; Nah 2:10; Zeph 1:14, 15; Matt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; 2 Pet 2:4; Jude 1:13; Rev 16:10
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Blue: symbol of deity
Ex 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; 2 Chr 2:7, 14; 3:14; Jer 10:9; Ezek 1:26; 10:1
- For additional reference, see passages below under CRIMSON
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Symbol of royalty
Esth 8:15; Ezek 23:6
- See CRIMSON, below
- Crimson, red, purple, and scarlet, symbols of various ideas
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Of iniquity
Isa 1:18; Rev 17:3, 4; 18:12, 16
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Of royalty
Judg 8:26; Dan 5:7, 16, 29; Matt 27:28
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Prosperity
2 Sam 1:24; Prov 31:21; Lam 4:5
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Conquest
Nah 2:3; Rev 12:3
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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; Lev 14:4, 6, 49, 51, 52; Num 4:7, 8, 13; 19:2, 5, 6; Isa 63:1–3; Heb 9:19–23
- White: symbol of holiness
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The high priest’s holy garments were made of white linen
Lev 16:4, 32
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Choir singers were arrayed in white
2 Chr 5:12
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Scriptures employing the symbol
Ps 51:7; Eccl 9:8; Isa 1:18; Dan 7:9; 11:35; 12:10; Matt 17:1, 2; 28:2, 3; Mark 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
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
