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HORSE, BLACK

(hippos melas):

Symbolic of famine ("balance .... measure of wheat for a shilling," etc., Revelation 6:5,6; compare Zechariah 6:2,6).

See REVELATION OF JOHN.


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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'HORSE, BLACK'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.  

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