Reference: Black
Easton
properly the absence of all colour. In Pr 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 De 32:10; Ps 17:8; Pr 7:2. It is a different word which is rendered "black" in Le 13:31,37; Song 1:5; 5:11; 6/2/type/bbe'>Zec 6:2,6. It is uncertain what the "black marble" of Es 1:6 was which formed a part of the mosaic pavement.
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And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days:
But if, in his opinion, the growth is stopped, and black hair has come up on it, the disease has gone; he is clean and the priest will say that he is clean.
He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.
In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses;
The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country.
Hastings
Morish
Under the figure of a bride the remnant of Israel says, I am 'black,' describing herself as having become dark or swarthy by the rays of the sun; the scorching effect of affliction, Cant. 1:5, 6: 'burning instead of beauty.' Isa 3:24. The kingdom of the Medes and Persians is described as a chariot with 'black' horses, 6/2/type/bbe'>Zec 6:2,6; and in the Revelation, in the third seal a rider on a 'black' horse betokens scarcity. Re 6:5. It is symbolical of what is dismal and threatening.
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And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.
In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses;
The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country.
And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.