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INK is mentioned once in OT (Jer_36:18). Exo_32:33 and Num_5:23 are adduced as evidence that the old Hebrew ink (derived from lamp-black [?]) could he washed off. From the bright colours that still survive in some papyri, it is evident that the ink used by the Egyptians must have been of a superior kind. The NT term for ‘ink,’ occurring three times (2Co_3:3, 2Jn_1:12, 3Jn_1:13), is melan (lit. ‘black’). See, further, under Writing.