Blackness:
(kimririm, "obscurations"; qadhruth, "darkness"; gnophos, "darkness" zophos "blackness"): Terms rarely used but of special significance in picturing the fearful gloom and blackness of moral darkness and calamity. Job, cursing, the day of his birth, wishes that it, a dies ater ("dead black day"), might be swallowed up in darkness (Job 3:5). Because of Israel's spiritual infidelity Yahweh clothes the heavens with the blackness of sackcloth (Isa 50:3), the figure being that of the inky blackness of ominous, terrifying thunder clouds. The fearful judgment against sin under the old dispensation is illustrated by the appalling blackness that enveloped smoking, burning, quaking Sinai at the giving of the law (Heb 12:18; compare Ex 19:16-19; 20:18). The horror of darkness culminates in the impenetrable blackness of the under-world, the eternal abode of fallen angels and riotously immoral and ungodly men (Jude 1:13; see also Jude 1:6 and 2Pe 2:4,17). Human language is here too feeble to picture the m oral gloom and rayless night of the lost: "Pits (the King James Version "chains") of darkness" (compare the ninth plague of Egypt, "darkness which may be felt" (Ex 10:21)). Wicked men are "wandering stars," comets that disappear in "blackness of darkness.... reserved for ever." In art this figurative language has found majestic and awe-inspiring expression in Dore's illustrations of Dante's Purgatory and Milton's Paradise Lost.
Written by Dwight M. Pratt
Blackness: Figurative
Job 30:30; Joe 2:6
Blackness: Blackness of Darkness
Jud 1:13
See COLOR, SYMBOLICAL
Colors: Symbolical Uses Of
In the Bible
Colors: Black: A Symbol of Affliction and Calamity
Job 3:5; 10:20-22; 30:26; Psa 107:10, 11; 143:3; Isa 5:30; 8:22; 9:19; 24:11; 50:3; Joe 2:6, 10; 3:14, 15; Amo 5:8; Nah 2:10; Zep 1:14, 15; Mat 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; 2Pe 2:4; Jud 1:13; Rev 16:10
Colors: Blue: Symbol of Deity
Exd 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; 2Ch 2:7, 14; 3:14.
For additional reference, see passages below under CRIMSON.
SYMBOL OF ROYALTY,
Est 8:15; Eze 23:6.
See CRIMSON, below.
Colors: Crimson, Red, Purple, and Scarlet: Symbols of Various Ideas
Of iniquity,
Isa 1:18; Rev 17:3, 4; 18:12, 16;
of royalty,
Jdg 8:26; Dan 5:7, 16, 29; Mat 27:28;
prosperity,
2Sa 1:24; Pro 31:21; Lam 4:5;
conquest,
Nah 2:3; Rev 12:3.
These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, as types and shadows of the atonement.
Exd 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; Hbr 9:19-23
Colors: White: Symbol of Holiness
The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen,
Lev 16:4, 32.
Choir singers were arrayed in white,
2Ch 5:12.
SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL:
Psa 51:7; Ecc 9:8; Isa 1:18; Dan 7:9; 11:35; 12:10; Mat 17:1, 2; 28:2, 3; Mar 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.
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