Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs. 2. (n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. 3. (n.) A pigment. See India. 4. (v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia INK ink (deyo, from root meaning "slowly flowing," BDB, 188; melan, "black"): Any fluid substance used with pen or brush to form written characters. In this sense ink is mentioned once in the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 36:2) and 3 times in the Greek New Testament (2 Corinthians 3:3 2 John 1:12; 2 John ; 3 John 1:13), and it is implied in all references to writing on papyrus or on leather. The inference from the "blotting out" of Exodus 32:33 and Numbers 5:23 that the Hebrew ink was a lamp-black and gum, or some other dry ink, is confirmed by the general usage of antiquity, by the later Jewish prejudice against other inks (OTJC, 71 note) and by a Jewish receipt referring to ink-tablets (Drach, "Notice sur l'encre des Hebreux," Ann. philos. chret., 42, 45, 353). The question is, however, now being put on a wholly new basis by the study of the Elephantine Jewish documents (Meyer, Papyrusfund2, 1912, 15, 21), and above all of the Harvard Ostraca from Samaria which give actual specimens of the ink in Palestine in the time of Ahab (Harvard Theological Review, Jan. 1911, 136-43). It is likely, however, that during the long period of Bible history various inks were used. The official copy of the law in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus was, according to Josephus (Ant., XII, ii, 11), written in gold, and the vermilion and red paints and dyes mentioned in Jeremiah 22:14 Ezekiel 23:14, and The Wisdom of Solomon 13:14 (milto kai phukei) were probably used also for writing books or coloring incised inscriptions. See literature under WRITING; especially Krauss, Talmud, Arch. 3, 148-53; Gardthausen, Greek Palestine, 1911, I, 202-17, and his bibliographical references passim. E. C. Richardson

Multi-Version Concordance Ink (4 Occurrences) 2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) 2 John 1:12 Having many things to write to you, I don't want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) 3 John 1:13 I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen; (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)