オレンジは聖書には登場しません — 色としても果物としても

Orange is not in the Bible — not the colour and not the fruit. The word did not exist in English as a colour name until the sixteenth century, and the fruit reached the Mediterranean long after Scripture was written. Why the colour is missing English itself had no word for orange until the fruit arrived to supply one. Before that, the range was described as red or yellow, and Old English used a compound meaning yellow-red. Biblical Hebrew is…