Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'black' occurs 22 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'black' in the standard works and contain 9.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Song. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 15 6 21
Lev. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 1 2 3
Prov. 1 0 1
Song. 3 0 3
Isa. 0 1 1
Jer. 3 0 3
Lam. 1 1 2
Joel 0 1 1
Nahum 0 1 1
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 3 2 5
BM 2 2 4
DC 1 4 5
PGP 1 1 2
TOTAL 22 15 37

Lev. 13:31
And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:

Lev. 13:37
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

1 Kgs. 18:45
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

Esth. 1:6
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 6:16
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Prov. 7:9
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Song. 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Song. 1:6
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Song. 5:11
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

Isa. 50:3
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Jer. 4:28
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

Jer. 8:21
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Jer. 14:2
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Lam. 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Lam. 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Joel 2:6
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Nahum 2:10
She 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.

Zech. 6:2
In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

Zech. 6:6
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.