KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Of the darkest colour. Sense 2: Dark or blackened in appearance. Sense 3: Figuratively, darkened by mourning, famine, or judgment.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Leviticus 13:31
Complete exact-word concordance
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt, I am blacke: astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Iudah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are blacke vnto the ground, and the crie of Ierusalem is gone vp.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.
1611 marginal noteOr, terrors or stormes.
1611 marginal notePsal.11.38
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
In the first charet were red horses, and in the second charet, blacke horses.
The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
The blacke horses which are therin, goe forth into the North countrey, and the white goe forth after them, and the grisled goe forth toward the South countrey.
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Neither shalt thou sweare by thy head, because thou canst not make one haire white or blacke.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And when hee had opened the third seale, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and loe, a blacke horse: and hee that sate on him had a paire of balances in his hand.
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
And I beheld when he had opened the sixt seale, and loe, there was a great earthquake, and the Sunne became blacke as sackecloth of haire, and the Moone became as blood.
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