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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Imperfection or bodily deformity excluding men from the priesthood, and rendering animals unfit to be offered in sacrifice (Leviticus 21:17-23; 22:19-25). The Christian church, as justified in Christ, is "without blemish" (Ephesians 5:27). Christ offered himself a sacrifice "without blemish," acceptable to God (1 Peter 1:19).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

2. (v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.

3. (n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BLEMISH

blem'-ish:

(1) mum, me'um; momos: This word signifies no particular skin disease, as has been supposed; but is used generally for any and all disfiguring affections of the skin, such as eczema, herpes, scabies, etc., even for scratches and scars, as in Leviticus 24:19, 20; and thence for moral defects, as in Ephesians 5:27. The existence of a blemish in a person of priestly descent prevented him from the execution of the priestly office; similarly an animal fit for sacrifice was to be without blemish. In the New Testament Christ is presented as the antitype of a pure and ritually acceptable sacrifice "as a lamb without blemish and without spot" (Hebrews 9:14 1 Peter 1:19), and the disciples are admonished to be blameless, "without blemish" (Ephesians 5:27). Rarely the word is used to designate a reprobate person (2 Peter 2:13).

(2) Blemish in the eye, tebhallul (from a root balal, "to overflow"; Arabic balla, balal, "to moisten"), cataract, white spots in the eye (Leviticus 21:20).

H. L. E. Luering

Greek

3470. momos -- blame, disgrace, blemish
... blame, disgrace, blemish. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: momos
Phonetic Spelling: (mo'-mos) Short Definition: a blemish, disgrace Definition ...
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299b. amomos -- without blemish
... 299a, 299b. amomos. 300 . without blemish. Transliteration: amomos Short
Definition: blameless. Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. ...
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299. amomos -- amomum (a fragrant plant of India)
... Adjective Transliteration: amomos Phonetic Spelling: (am'-o-mos) Short Definition:
blameless Definition: blameless, without blemish, unblemished, faultless. ...
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4696. spilos -- a spot, stain
... Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: spilos Phonetic Spelling:
(spee'-los) Short Definition: a spot, fault Definition: a spot, fault, stain, blemish ...
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784. aspilos -- spotless, unstained
... 784 (an adjective, derived from 1 "without" and 4696 , "spot, blemish") --
properly, unspotted (unstained); (figuratively) and hence . ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3971. mum -- blemish, defect
mum or mum. 3970, 3971. mum or mum. 3972 . blemish, defect. Transliteration:
mum or mum Phonetic Spelling: (moom) Short Definition: defect. ... blemish, blot, spot ...
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4140b. mum -- blemish, defect
... 4140a, 4140b. mum. 4141 . blemish, defect. Transliteration: mum Short
Definition: defect. Word Origin from the same as mum Definition ...
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1848. dophi -- a blemish, fault
... 1847, 1848. dophi. 1849 . a blemish, fault. Transliteration: dophi Phonetic
Spelling: (dof'-ee) Short Definition: slander. Word ...
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8549. tamim -- complete, sound
... full (1), intact (1), integrity (4), perfect (5), sincerity (1), unblemished (2),
uprightly (1), who is perfect (1), whole (2), without blemish (12), without ...
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6172. ervah -- nakedness
... nakedness, shame, uncleanness. From arah; nudity, literally (especially the pudenda)
or figuratively (disgrace, blemish) -- nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness). ...
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8401. teben -- straw
... Short Definition: straw. Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition straw
NASB Word Usage straw (17). blemish. Probably from banah ...
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8400. teballul -- confusion, obscurity
... destruction. From balal in the original sense of flowing: a cataract (in the eye) --
blemish. see HEBREW balal. 8399, 8400. teballul. 8401 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

Twenty-Fifth Day. Holy and Blameless.
... ii.10, iii.12, 13. 'He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love.'"Ephesians 1:4. ...
/.../murray/holy in christ/twenty-fifth day holy and blameless.htm

Colossians i. 21, 22
... in your mind, in your evil works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His
flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreprovable ...
/.../homily iv colossians i 21.htm

Of the Sacrifices Offered to God by the Saints, which are to be ...
... paradise. Then, indeed, intact and pure from all stain and blemish of sin,
they offered themselves to God as the purest sacrifices. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 26 of the sacrifices offered.htm

Article I: of God.
... not a depravity or corruption in the nature of man, but only servitude, or a condition
of mortality [not an innate evil nature, but only a blemish or imposed ...
/.../melanchthon/the apology of the augsburg confession/part 1 article i of.htm

Cleansing.
... faultless," a condition which is to be found only "before the throne." For it is
to be noted that the Greek word translated "without blemish," "without fault ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/macneil/the spirit-filled life/chapter xi cleansing.htm

The Passover: an Expiation and a Feast, a Memorial and a Prophecy
... it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall
make your count for the lamb.5. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the passover an expiation and.htm

Your Origen Allows Himself to Treat of the Transmigration of Souls ...
... the discussion with these words:"His assertion that we have been chosen before the
foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blemish before him ...
/.../20 your origen allows himself.htm

Ephesians i. 2-Jan
... Ver.4. "Even as," he proceeds, "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love.". ...
/.../homily i ephesians i 2-jan.htm

Christ Our Passover
... Look further down. It was a lamb without blemish. ... It must be a lamb without
blemish. And was not Jesus Christ even such from his birth? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/christ our passover.htm

The Dedication
... The offerings presented to the Lord were to be without blemish. ... He was the
"lamb without blemish and without spot." 1 Peter 1:19. ...
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Thesaurus

Blemish (71 Occurrences)
... The Christian church, as justified in Christ, is "without blemish" (Ephesians
5:27). Christ ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BLEMISH. blem ...
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Yearling (48 Occurrences)
... Yearling (48 Occurrences). Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling
male; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. (DBY). ...
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Fourteen (26 Occurrences)
... offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two
rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; (WEB KJV ...
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Defect (62 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a
defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or ...
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Ewe (8 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 14:10 "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish,
and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of ...
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Lambs (107 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 14:10 "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish,
and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of ...
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Year-old (6 Occurrences)
... Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye
shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats; (See NIV). ...
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Spot (42 Occurrences)
... place discolored. 2. (n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that
soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. 3. (n ...
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Fault (42 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Defect; want; lack; default. 2. (n.) Anything that fails, that is wanting,
or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. ...
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Goats (134 Occurrences)
... a very grievous pestilence. (See NIV). Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from ...
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Bible Concordance

Blemish (71 Occurrences)

Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
(WEB WEY ASV YLT)

Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Philippians 2:15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
(WEB ASV YLT RSV)

Colossians 1:22 yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
(WEB ASV YLT NIV)

Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
(WEB WEY ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
(KJV WEY DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Peter 3:14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.
(WEB WEY RSV)

Jude 1:24 But to Him who is able to keep you safe from stumbling, and cause you to stand in the presence of His glory free from blemish and full of exultant joy--
(WEY ASV YLT RSV)

Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.
(ASV YLT)

Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 29:1 "This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest's office: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Leviticus 1:3 "'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 1:10 "'If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 3:1 "'If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 3:6 "'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 4:3 if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 4:23 if his sin, in which he has sinned, is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 4:28 if his sin, which he has sinned, is made known to him, then he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 4:32 "'If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 5:15 "If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 5:18 He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be forgiven.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 6:6 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 9:2 and he said to Aaron, "Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 9:3 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying,'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 14:10 "On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 21:17 "Say to Aaron,'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 21:18 For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 21:20 Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
(KJV ASV WBS)

Leviticus 21:21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 21:23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 22:19 that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without blemish, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 22:20 But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 22:21 Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Leviticus 22:25 Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 23:12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 23:18 You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Leviticus 24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Leviticus 24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Numbers 6:14 and he shall offer his offering to Yahweh, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 19:2 "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never came yoke.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:3 You shall tell them,'This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Numbers 28:9 "'On the Sabbath day two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and the drink offering of it:
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Numbers 28:11 "'In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Numbers 28:19 but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 28:31 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:13 and you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:17 "'On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Numbers 29:20 "'On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:23 "'On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:26 "'On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY RSV)

Numbers 29:29 "'On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Numbers 29:32 "'On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Deuteronomy 15:21 If it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 17:1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish. They are
(WEB JPS ASV YLT RSV)

2 Samuel 14:25 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Job 11:15 For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.
(YLT RSV)

Job 31:7 If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,
(YLT)

Proverbs 9:7 The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish.
(YLT)

Song of Songs 4:7 Thou 'art' all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,
(YLT NAS)

Ezekiel 43:22 On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 43:23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 43:25 Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 45:18 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 45:23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 46:4 The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 46:6 On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 46:13 You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning you shall prepare it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Daniel 1:4 youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Subtopics

Blemish

Blemish: Animals With, Forbidden to be Used for Sacrifice

Blemish: Debarred Sons of Aaron from Exercise of Priestly offices

Blemish: Figurative

Related Terms

Yearling (48 Occurrences)

Fourteen (26 Occurrences)

Defect (62 Occurrences)

Ewe (8 Occurrences)

Lambs (107 Occurrences)

Year-old (6 Occurrences)