聖書に黄色はほとんど存在しない — 金がその役割を果たす

Yellow barely exists in the Bible. Biblical Hebrew has no ordinary word for it, and what does the work instead is gold. That absence is worth understanding before assigning the colour a meaning. The one place yellow appears The Hebrew tsahov turns up in exactly one context, and it is a medical one. The priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the…