Reference: Colours
Hastings
The colours named in OT and NT, as in other ancient literatures, are few in number, and of these several are used with considerable latitude.
1. White as the colour of snow in Isa 1:18, of the teeth described as milk-white (Ge 49:12), and of horses (Zec 1:8; 6:3,6); also of wool (Re 1:14)
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And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.
the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.
His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and a covering of goatskins on top.
And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it shall be shown to the priest.
And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,
'Have they not found and divided the spoil?-- A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
"You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.
There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
though you men lie among the sheepfolds-- the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.
She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.
Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.
I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young.
His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.
"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.
But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion
Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.
Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.
"I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses, the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses--all of them strong.
the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses--all of them strong.
the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses--all of them strong.
The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country."
The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country."
The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country." When the strong horses came out, they were impatient to go and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth."So they patrolled the earth.
He answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.'
Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.
and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.