Archive -> July 23, 2005

“Nigger” redressed

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

The Greek word used for Niger [Strong’s Concordance #3526] is neeg-er, meaning black. The Greek as found in Matthew 5:36, to describe the color of a person’s hair is not neger, but melas “black.”

Excerpted from Jesus Found In Egipt (sic) by Dr. Malachi Z. York