Colors proof of Divine origin of Bible?

admittedly, i don't know anything about gematria, but you've got some typos here.for instance, red should read: אדם (alef, dalet, mem sofit), like the name "adam" and not אדימ (alef, dalet, yud, mem) which isn't even a possibly spelling of anything in hebrew. mem should always become mem sofit at the end of a word. that probably makes a difference.even stranger, is which is "blue" as in despressed. and a lot of these have extra vavs in them...

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I was using a not-very-good online dictionary. I'm not sure the people who made it knew any more Hebrew than I do.If you find any errors in the SW article, I should be grateful; also if you can think of any more Biblical color words I should have included.

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The Bible mentions five colors in Hebrew: red (adom), Yellow (tzahov), green (yerakon), blue (tchelet) and magenta (argaman). One curious observation is immediately apparent, in that this list not only includes the primary colors - red, yellow and blue but it also includes the only two other colors green and magenta that are necessary to produce the complete color palate for four color printing.

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"red yellow and blue are the primary colors" is something they teach you in elementary art specials, sure. but it's not right. there are two sets of primary colors, depending on whether we are dealing in subtractive color (such as paint of ink) or additive color (such as light). "subtractive" is subtractive because it absorbs particular colors of light, and what we see is the remaining the reflected light. so if this statement were anywhere close to accurate, we'd need six colors.additive media, such as the monitor you're reading this on, use RED, GREEN, and BLUE as their primary colors. every color can be made from those three. surely anyone who's used photoshop is somewhat familiar with RGB.the inverse of that spectrum is subtractive, CYAN, MAGENTA, and YELLOW. yellow is opposite blue, cyan opposite red, magenta opposite green. these are the three colors that four color offset printing uses. the fourth color, the K and CMYK, is black. this is because while it's possible to make a really nice white in additive by combining the three primaries, doing the same in subtractive doesn't net a particularly deep black.

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the funny bit is that my printed dictionary has "blue" one way, but not the other. i always check things forwards AND backwards...for online dictionaries, i recommend מילון מורפיקס. my suspicion is that there are a few colors the OP is missing, but i haven't exactly made a comprehensive reading of the bible noting everywhere a color name is used.and frankly, gematria is quite subjective. there are a number of ways to spell things commonly in hebrew (some of those extra vavs might well be acceptable spellings, as those are places you'd note the same vowel sound with niqud). and like any numerology, it's apparently fairly easy to fudge stuff.Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given.

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