Nave's Topical Index

Colors

Symbolical uses of

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; Joe 2:6,10; 3:14,15; Am 5:8; Na 2:10; Zep 1:14,15; Mt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; 2Pe 2:4; Jude 1:13; Re 16:10

BLUE: SYMBOL OF DEITY—Ex 24:10; 25:3,4; 26:1; 28:28,37; 38:18; 39:1-5,21,24,29,31; Nu 4:5-12; 15:38-40; 2Ch 2:7,14; 3:14; Jer 10:9; Eze 1:26; 10:1

For additional reference, see passages below under CRIMSON
SYMBOL OF ROYALTY
—Es 8:15; Eze 23:6
See below

CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, SYMBOLS OF VARIOUS IDEAS

Of iniquity
—Isa 1:18; Re 17:3,4; 18:12,16
Of royalty
—Jud 8:26; Da 5:7,16,29; Mt 27:28
Prosperity
—2Sa 1:24; Pr 31:21; La 4:5
Conquest
—Na 2:3; Re 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—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; Le 14:4,6,49,51,52; Nu 4:7,8,13; 19:2,5,6; Isa 63:1-3; Heb 9:19-23

WHITE: SYMBOL OF HOLINESS

The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen
—Le 16:4,32
Choir singers were arrayed in white
—2Ch 5:12

SCRIPTURES EMPLOYING THE SYMBOL—Ps 51:7; Ec 9:8; Isa 1:18; Da 7:9; 11:35; 12:10; Mt 17:1,2; 28:2,3; Mr 9:3; Re 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