Blue

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BLUE.—See Colours, 5.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


bloo. See COLORS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Exo_25:4 (c) Blue threads were woven into the various parts of the tabernacle to remind Israel that though they were traveling on earth their destination was Heaven. The color "blue" is used throughout the Scripture to remind the people of their heavenly character. The blue yarns were woven in with the red yarns to remind Israel that they were forgiven and were made fit for Heaven by the shed blood of the sacrifice. Linen yarns also were woven with these to remind the people of GOD of GOD's righteousness given to them as a gift to make them acceptable to GOD. Purple yarns were to remind Israel that they were a part of the royal family of Heaven. The cherubims were to remind them that one day they would be associated with angels. See also Exo_26:1; Exo_39:3.

Exo_26:31 (c) The colors in the veil were to remind Israel that they could not enter the holy place, nor have the full enjoyment of GOD's fellowship except by the graces and privileges represented by these.

Exo_26:36 (c) The blue in these door curtains was to remind Israel that they could always enter into GOD's house and GOD's fellowship by means of that heavenly revelation and heavenly salvation provided through the blood of the lamb.

Exo_28:31 (c) This color on Aaron was to remind him that he was always to be enveloped with a heavenly deportment. It would also remind him and Israel that he was a heavenly man living in heavenly places and occupied with heavenly business.

Num_15:38 (c) The sabbath breaker had just been stoned (see Num_15:35), so GOD told His people to put this ribbon of blue on the bottom of their garments to ever remind them that they were to obey the message from Heaven, and not live by their own ideas, and conclusions.

Est_1:6 (c) The wicked king seeking to justify his sins had the blue woven in the curtains so as to connect his evil orgies with something of Heaven and Heaven's business. Most wicked practices have in some way a religious tinge to their ceremonies. The most wicked institution in the world, the apostate church, has a great religious program in order that they may cover up their evil doings by it.

Est_8:15 (c) It is evident that Mordecai was GOD's man for that particular time. The blue would remind all who saw him that he was carrying out GOD's plan, and accomplishing GOD's purposes.

Eze_23:6 (c) The Assyrians clothed themselves in garments of blue probably to imitate the priesthood of Israel and thus give a religious touch to their evils. Thus with a pretext of being a godly people, they would deceive Israel and gain their confidence. Wicked religions still follow this plan.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Blue
(תְּכֵלֶת, teke'leth), almost constantly associated with purple, occurs repeatedly in Exodus 25-39; also in Num_4:6-7; Num_4:9; Num_4:11-12; Num_15:38; 2Ch_2:7; 2Ch_2:14; 2Ch_3:14; Est_1:6; Est_8:15; Jer_10:9; Eze_23:6; Eze_27:7; Eze_27:24; Sept. generally ὑάκινθος, ὑακίνθινος, and in Sir_40:4; Sir_45:10; 1Ma_4:23; and so Josephus, Philo, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Vulgate, and Jerome. (In Est_1:6, the word translated " blue" is the same elsewhere rendered " linen.") This color is supposed to have been obtained' from a purple shell-fish of the Mediterranean, the conchylium of the ancients, the Helix ianthkna of Linnaeus (Syst. Nat. t. i, pt. 7:p. 3645; and see Forskal's Descriptio Animal. p. 127), called chilzon (חַלְזוֹן) by the ancient Jews. Thus the Pseudo-Jonathan, in Deu_33:19, speaks of the Zebulonites, who dwelt at the shore of the great sea, and caught chilzon, with whose juice they dye thread of a hyacinthine color. The Scriptures afford no clew to this color; for the only passages in which it seems, in the English version, to be applied to something that might assist our conceptions are mistranslated, namely, "The blueness of a wound" (Pro_20:30), and "A blue mark upon him that is beaten" (Sir_23:10), there being no reference to color in the original of either. The word in the Sept. and Apocrypha refers to the hyacinth; but both the flower and stone so named by the ancients are disputed, especially the former. Yet it is used to denote dark-colored and deep purple.
Virgil speaks of ferrugineos hyacinthos, and Colunella compares the color of the flower to that of clotted blood, or deep, dusky red, like rust (De Re Rust. 10:305). Hesychius defines ὑακίνθινον, ὑπομελανίζον, πορφυρίζον. It is plainly used in the Greek of Ecclus. xl, 4, for the royal purple. Josephus evidently takes the Hebrew word to mean “sky-color;" for in explaining the colors of the vail of the Temple, and referring to the blue (Exo_26:31), he says that it represented the air or sky (War, v, 4); he similarly explains the vestment of the high-priest (Ant. 3:7, 7; and see Philo, Vita Mosis, 3:148; t. ii, ed. Mangey). These statements may be reconciled by the fact that, in proportion as the sky is clear and serene, it assumes a dark appearance, which is still more observable in an E stern climate. SEE PURPLE.
The chief references to this color in Scripture are as follows: The robe of the high-priest's ephod was to be all of blue (Exo_28:31); so the loops of the curtains to the tabernacle (Exo_26:4); the ribbon for the breastplate (Exo_28:28), and for the plate for the mitre (Exo_28:37; comp. Sir_45:10); blue cloths for various sacred uses (Num_4:6-7; Num_4:9; Num_4:11-12) the people commanded to wear a ribbon of blue above the fringe of their garments (Num_15:38); it appears as a color of furniture in the palace of Ahasuerus (Est_1:6), and part of the royal apparel (Est_8:15); array of the idols of Babylon (Jer_10:9); of the Assyrian nobles, etc. (Ezra 23:6; see Braunius, De Vestitu, i, 9 and 13; Bochart, 3:670). SEE COLOR.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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