2007-02-19 01:36:57 · 4 answers · asked by Genieve H 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I simply do not understand your question! What do you mean by 'doing the colours in the rainbow'! These are set colours, so nobody can 'come up' with any other colour! Where the bible comes in, I cannot begin think! Can you be a little more specific?
If you can phrase your question a bit more lucidly, the answers will flood in! As it is, you will get only joke ones!
2007-02-19 01:46:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am assuming you are refering to the verses in Ezekiel chapters 1 and 8 which in the King James Bible is translated to say that one of the colors surrounded the throne was God was like the "color of amber". The actual Hebrew word is chashmal, and refers to a polished metal. Most likely a form of bronze. But as the word chashmal is not used in Hebrew today, it is difficult to be certain what the metalic composition was.
Note that according to Ezekiel 1:27, the throne shone with the brightness of "amber", and then around that was a brightness like a rainbow. The Bible specifically states that the "amber" color was not part of the rainbow.
So go ahead and color your rainbow with the standard seven colors of the spectrum and it will match the one in the Bible, as the "color of amber" was not part of that rainbow.
2007-02-19 10:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looks like what we know as "amber" is not in the Bible.
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Amber: (Ezekiel 1:4,27; 8:2) Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by "polished brass," others "fine brass," as in (Revelation 1:15; 2:18) It was probably the mixture now called electrum. The word has no connection, however, with what is now called amber, which is a gummy substance, reckoned as belonging to the mineral kingdom though of vegetable origin, a fossil resin. END QUOTE
2007-02-19 09:42:54 · answer #3 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give your teacher an electric shock and tell them that the old word for amber was electron and... well...
Look, if you really want to learn things why are you reading the bible? I could recommend books on optics, refraction or on colour in general.
2007-02-19 09:40:47 · answer #4 · answered by Goodly Devil 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋