圣经中没有“粉红色”(Pink)——但有一种红色来自虫子



  • 圣经中没有粉红色。希伯来语和希腊语中都没有对应的词,而英语直到十七世纪才用“pink”来指代这种颜色。
  • 圣经中的颜色词大多是指染料和材料,而不是光谱上的点——蓝色是 蓝色羊毛线, ,深红色是 朱红.
  • 这种深红色是以一种虫子命名的:染料来自胭脂虫,通过压碎这种昆虫,可以制成古代地中海地区通用的深红色染料。
  • 以赛亚书 1:18 使用了两个染料词。这些是洗不掉的固色染料,这正是应许的力量所在——一种按定义无法洗掉的污渍,却终将被洗净。
  • 圣经没有提供颜色代码。当它指定颜色时,是在指定建筑材料,原因在于成本。

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,…

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