Brown
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Genesis 30:32-3330:3530:40ColorsBlack
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
BROWN . See Colours, § 2 .
King James Dictionary [3]
BROWN, a. Dusky of a dark or dusky color, inclining to redness but the shades are various, as Spanish brown, London brown, clove brown, tawny brown. Brown results from a mixture of red, black and yellow.
BROWN, To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves,
Browns the dim void, and darkens deep the groves.
Webster's Dictionary [4]
(1):
(n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
(2):
(superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
(3):
(v. t.) To make brown or dusky.
(4):
(v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
(5):
(v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
(6):
(v. i.) To become brown.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
See Colors .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
(חוּם, chum, literally scorched), i.e. black, the term applied to dark-colored sheep in a flock (Genesis 30:32-40). (See Color).
