Nave’s Topical Bible
Colors
80 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
Symbolical uses of
- BLACK: A SYMBOL OF AFFLICTION AND CALAMITY
Job 3:5; Job 10:20-22; Job 30:26; Psalms 107:10-11; Psalms 143:3; Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:22; Isaiah 9:19; Isaiah 24:11; Isaiah 50:3; Joel 2:6,10; Joel 3:14-15; Amos 5:8; Nahum 2:10; Zephaniah 1:14-15; Matthew 8:12; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 25:30; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:13; Revelation 16:10
- BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY
Exodus 24:10; Exodus 25:3-4; Exodus 26:1; Exodus 28:28,37; Exodus 38:18; Exodus 39:1-5,21,24,29,31; Numbers 4:5-12; Numbers 15:38-40; 2 Chronicles 2:7,14; 2 Chronicles 3:14; Jeremiah 10:9; Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1
For additional reference, see passages below under CRIMSON
- SYMBOL OF ROYALTY
See CRIMSON, blow
CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS
- Of iniquity
- Of royalty
- Prosperity
- Conquest
- These colors figured largely in the symbolisms of the Tabernacle furnishing, and priestly vestments and functions, As types and shadows of the atonement
Exodus 25:3-5; Exodus 26:1,14,31,36; Exodus 36:8,19,35,37; Exodus 27:16; Exodus 28:4-8,15,31,33; Exodus 35:5-7,23,25,35; Exodus 38:18,23; Exodus 39:2-3,5,29; Leviticus 14:4,6,49,51-52; Numbers 4:7-8,13; Numbers 19:2,5-6; Isaiah 63:1-3; Hebrews 9:19-23
- WHITE: SYMBOL OF HOLINESS
- The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen
- Choir singers were arrayed in white
- SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL
Psalms 51:7; Ecclesiastes 9:8; Isaiah 1:18; Daniel 7:9; Daniel 11:35; Daniel 12:10; Matthew 17:1-2; Matthew 28:2-3; Mark 9:3; Revelation 1:13-14; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 3:4-5,18; Revelation 4:4; Revelation 6:2,11; Revelation 7:9,13-14; Revelation 15:6; Revelation 19:8,11,14; Revelation 20:11
Bible verses about “Colors”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Psalms 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
- Psalms 107:11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
- Isaiah 5:30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
- Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
- Isaiah 24:11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- Isaiah 50:3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
- Joel 2:6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
- Joel 2:10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
- Joel 3:14Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
- Joel 3:15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
- Amos 5:8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
- Nahum 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Zephaniah 1:14The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
- Zephaniah 1:15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
- Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Jude 1:13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
- Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
- Exodus 24:10And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- Exodus 25:3And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
- Exodus 25:4And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
- Exodus 26:1Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 28:28And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
- Exodus 28:37And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
- Exodus 38:18And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
- Exodus 39:1And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:2And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
- Exodus 39:3And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
- Exodus 39:4They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
- Exodus 39:5And the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:21And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the Lord commanded Moses.