Braun kommt in der Bibel nicht vor – aber der Boden benennt den ersten Menschen

Brown is not a colour word in the Bible. But the most important brown thing in Scripture is there on the first page, and the first man is named after it. The word that is not there Biblical Hebrew has a small colour vocabulary and it names materials and dyes rather than points on a spectrum. There is no term for brown. The King James does use the word, in Genesis 30, for the sheep Jacob separates from Laban’s flock.…