BLACK
Biblical dream symbol meaning
How black appeared in your dream
Dreaming of complete darkness or black sky surrounding you — Biblical symbolism of darkness represents a state without God's light or spiritual life, indicating a season of spiritual emptiness or separation from divine presence.
Genesis 1:2-3Lamentations 4:8Isaiah 50:3
Seeing black shadows, dark figures, or blackness creeping over the land — In biblical dreams, black symbolizes wickedness, sin, and deceitful practices that operate in hidden or deceptive ways, warning against evil influences.
Song of Solomon 5:11Genesis 8:7Proverbs 7:9Isaiah 48:22
Dreaming of blackened earth, scorched ground, or burned landscape — Biblical imagery of blackness through burning represents devastation, judgment, or the consequences of sin and disobedience in your spiritual life.
Jeremiah 14:2, 8Isaiah 50:3
Seeing black clouds, dark heavens, or blackness covering the sky — Blackness in biblical dreams symbolizes famine, loss, deprivation, or times of spiritual and physical scarcity when provision seems absent.
Revelation 6:5-6Lamentations 4:8
Experiencing blackest darkness, bottomless black void, or impenetrable black shadows — In biblical interpretation, the deepest blackness represents hell, death, perdition, and eternal darkness reserved for those separated from God's light.
Job 3:52 Peter 2:17Jude 1:13
Dreaming of wearing black garments or surroundings becoming black — Biblical symbolism of black clothing or surroundings relates to mourning, death, grief, and the unclean state of spiritual contamination by sin.
Lamentations 4:8Job 3:5
Seeing blackness overwhelming light, darkness swallowing brightness, or black clouds extinguishing illumination — Biblical symbolism of blackness overwhelming light represents a curse or claim of darkness over what was once illuminated, indicating spiritual territory being overtaken by shadow and the aggressive advance of demonic forces seeking to extinguish God's presence.
Job 3:5
Dreaming of wild black waves, foaming dark waters, or turbulent blackness in the sea — In biblical interpretation, wild waves of blackness represent shameful and uncontrolled spiritual rebellion, symbolizing those who are untamed in their wickedness and destined for eternal blackest darkness as wandering stars without fixed purpose in God.
Jude 1:13
Seeing the sky clothed in blackness, heaven covered with dark sackcloth, or celestial blackness as a garment — Biblical imagery of the sky being clothed with darkness represents God's sovereign act of judgment and mourning over sin, where He Himself covers the heavens with blackness as sackcloth to express divine grief and impending judgment.
Isaiah 50:3
Possible biblical meanings
Without light or life (Genesis 1:2-3; Lamentations 4:8)·Wicked (Song of Solomon 5:11; Genesis 8:7; Isaiah 48:22)·Sin (Lamentations 4:8)·Deceitful (Proverbs 7:9)·Mourning (Job 30:28; Lamentations 5:10)·Dead or unclean (Isaiah 59:10; Leviticus 11:24)·Burned (Jeremiah 14:2, 8)·Famine (Revelation 6:5-6)·Hell (2 Peter 2:17)·Death (Job 3:5)
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