Page 194 - Coincidences in the Bible and in Biblical Hebrew

173
CHAPTER 12 THE COLORS
CHAPTER 12 THE COLORS 173
CNVs, is consistent with the sorted WF ” (an event that has occurred) is small
enough, under the null hypothesis, to justify rejecting this hypothesis. The
number of possible permutations of four observations is 1x2x3x4 = 24. Only
one of these permutations gives CNV ordering consistent with that according

to the respective WFs. Thus, the probability of randomly having values of col-
ors’ names sorted in the same order as the respective WFs (an event that will
lead one to reject the null hypothesis and accept that there is a real relationship

between the two), is 1/24 = 4.2%. Were one to select the significance level
of the commonly accepted α = 5%, then, based on the data, this test would
reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis—namely, we
conclude that there is a real relationship between CNV and WF .
17
9
2. The color name argaman often appears in the Bible together with tchelet
(blue). The meaning of this word in modern Hebrew is purple (a non-ele-
mentary color), and that is probably how it was also used in biblical times. In
this comment, we explore how this color name compares with the rest of the
colors in the basic set, and how consistent it is with the model based on the
observations in the basic set.
The purple color is obtained from red and blue in the ratio of about 2:3,
respectively (see Table 12.2). Since light energy is known to be linearly related
to the wave frequency , one could calculate the equivalent monochrome wave
frequency—namely, the equivalent wave frequency that would result in the
eye seeing purple from a monochrome spectral color.

Calculating an equivalent WF for purple, based on the RGB proportions for

purple, given in Table 12.2, and on the WF of red and blue, one obtains
purple WF = [102(443) + 153(650)] / (102+153) = 567.2 THz

17
The color name value (CNV) for argaman is

294 = (50 = ן) + (40 = מ) + (3 = ג) + (200 = ר) + (1 = א)

Introducing this value into the most accurate prediction model (Figure 12.3),
we obtain

17
predicted WF for argaman = 502.62 + 0.1730(294) = 553.5 THz

This value is not far off from the true value for purple of 567.2, calculated
earlier (a deviation of 2.4%). This result implies that including argaman in