properly the absence of all colour. In Prov. 7:9 the Hebrew word means, as in the margin of the Revised Version, "the pupil of the eye." It is translated "apple" of the eye in Deut. 32:10; Psa 17:8; Prov. 7:2. It is a different word which is rendered "black" in Lev. 13:31, Lev. 13:37; 1:5;5:11; and Zech. 6:2, Zech. 6: 6. It is uncertain what the "black marble" of Esther 1:6 was which formed a part of the mosaic pavement.