Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'black' occurs 22 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'black' in the standard works and contain 9.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Song. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 15 6 21
Lev. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 1 2 3
Prov. 1 0 1
Song. 3 0 3
Isa. 0 1 1
Jer. 3 0 3
Lam. 1 1 2
Joel 0 1 1
Nahum 0 1 1
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 3 2 5
BM 2 2 4
DC 1 4 5
PGP 1 1 2
TOTAL 22 15 37

Song. 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Song. 1:6
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Song. 5:11
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.