Why are there no black people in the Bible?
Question:
Why are there no black people in the Bible? Why don't the people have black names?
Answer:
There are people mentioned in the Bible whose skin color would have been dark.
- Moses' wife, who was from Cush (Numbers 12:1)
- An unnamed Cushite runner (II Samuel 18:21)
- Tirhakah king of Cush (II Kings 19:9)
- Zerah, the Ethiopian (II Chronicles 14:9)
- Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian (Jeremiah 38:12)
- Simon of Cyrene (Matthew 27:32)
- Candace, queen of Ethiopia (Acts 8:27)
- The Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:27)
- Simeon called Niger (black) (Acts 13:1)
- Lucius of Cyrene (Acts 13:1).
African countries mentioned: Egypt, Ethiopia, Put (Libya, Cyrene), and Cush (Sudan).
There is no such thing as a "black name." Some names are favored in different cultures and areas of the world but aren't exclusive.