melas describes a dark color applied to a horse, the sun, and a hair’s possible appearance.

The attested use describes dark coloration in three settings: a horse, the sun, and a hair’s possible appearance. The two Revelation occurrences show the same masculine nominative form in clauses identifying a horse and the sun, while Matthew 5:36 uses an accusative feminine form in the contrast between white and dark hair.

1. Dark coloration of visible things · dominant

   In Revelation 6:5, the nominative masculine form identifies the horse seen after the third seal; the APB renders the clause “a black horse.” In Revelation 6:12, the same form occurs where the sun changes in appearance, rendered “the sun became black as sackcloth of hair”; Matthew 5:36 uses the accusative feminine form in the statement that a person cannot make a hair “white or black.”

   Revelation 6:5Revelation 6:12Matthew 5:36

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across all three verses, the APB uses “black” for the relevant color description: a horse, the sun, and a hair. These renderings confirm the clauses’ color contrast rather than establish a finer distinction.