ピンクは聖書に登場しない — しかし、ある赤色は虫から作られた

Pink is not in the Bible. Neither Hebrew nor Greek has a word for it, and no passage describes anything as pink. What they do have is one red so expensive it came from an insect, and the verse that uses it is the most famous colour sentence in Scripture. Why pink is missing Ancient colour vocabularies were smaller than ours and tended to name materials and dyes rather than shades on a spectrum. Biblical Hebrew’s colour words are few,…