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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 .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.