Swarthy also implies dark hair too though, its possible the ancient Hebrews were a tanned but blonde and blue eyed race (in fact, the arayans probably where too since they lived in Mesopotamia). Keep in mind, the greeks, the only living relatives to the actual Hebrews (according to Maccabees at least), are also generally dark skinned, but can have blonde hair and blue eyes, and were probably a lot fairer before they got mongrelized under islamic occuopations. (The Arabs were probably a lot lighter in the past too before they started miscegenating aggressively. Arabs are also descended from Abraham, they arent actually native to arabia, but rather mongrelized with the many Canaanite nations originally dwelling there)