International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
MOTEmot (karphos): A minute piece of anything dry or light, as straw, chaff, a splinter of wood, that might enter the eye. Used by Jesus in Matthew 7:3;; Luke 6:41 in contrast with "beam," to rebuke officiousness in correcting small faults of others, while cherishing greater ones of our own.
Greek
2595. karphos -- a small dry stalk ... mote, speck. From karpho (to wither); a dry twig or straw --
mote. (karphos) --
6 Occurrences. 2594, 2595. karphos. 2596 . Strong's Numbers.
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2595.htm - 6kStrong's Hebrew
4131. mot -- to totter, shake, slip... 4130, 4131. mot. 4132 . to totter, shake, slip. Transliteration: mot Phonetic
Spelling: (
mote) Short Definition: shaken. Word Origin a prim.
... /hebrew/4131.htm - 6k 4132. mot -- a shaking, pole, bar (of a yoke)
... 4131, 4132. mot. 4133 . a shaking, pole, bar (of a yoke). Transliteration:
mot Phonetic Spelling: (mote) Short Definition: bars. ...
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Library
Mote
... Mote. Mote, Edward, an English Baptist minister, was born in London January
21, 1797. He went astray, he tells us, from his youth ...
//christianbookshelf.org/nutter/hymn writers of the church/mote.htm
The Mote in the Sunbeam.
... THE MOTE IN THE SUNBEAM. Wo find ich mich. ... What doth that Sun whence clearest
splendours stream. Know of the mote that dances in his beam? ...
/.../winkworth/christian singers of germany/the mote in the sunbeam.htm
The Mote and the Beam
... CHAPTER 7 THE MOTE AND THE BEAM. ... Though it is only something tiny"what Jesus called
a mote"how painful it is and how helpless he is until it is removed! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 7 the mote and.htm
On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xviii. 15, "If Thy Brother Sin ...
... For He said that his eye is sharp to cast out a mote out of his brother's eye, who
has not a beam in his own eye. ... A mote is the beginning of a beam. ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxxii on the words.htm
Judging, Asking, and Giving
... with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete,
it shall be measured to you again.3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/judging asking and giving.htm
Three Condensed Parables
... I to XII THREE CONDENSED PARABLES. 'And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but perceiveth not the beam that is in thine own eye? 42. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/three condensed parables.htm
Chapter xix.
... and to improve, which is a fault arising either from pride or from envy; therefore
He has subjoined the statement: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in ...
/.../augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter xix 2.htm
Sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity
... And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either how canst ...
/.../xx sermon for the fourth.htm
No Man Can Serve Two Masters; and that Because it is Necessary ...
... [779] Why lookest thou at the mote which is in the eye of thy brother,
but considerest not the column that is in thine own eye? ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section x no man can.htm
Charitable Judgment.
... And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how canst ...
//christianbookshelf.org/barton/his life/charitable judgment.htm
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff, etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (
Matthew 7:3-5;
Luke 6:41, 42).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A small particle of dust; a speck; as a mote in one's eye.
2. (p. p.) of Mot.
3. (pres. subj.) of Mot.
4. (v.) See 1st Mot.
5. (n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
6. (n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
7. (n.) A place of meeting for discussion.
8. (n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.
9. (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
Thesaurus
Mote (6 Occurrences)... A slight moral defect is likened to a
mote (Matthew 7:3-5; Luke 6:41, 42).
... 1. (n.)
A small particle of dust; a speck; as a
mote in one's eye. 2. (pp) of Mot.
.../m/mote.htm - 9kBeholdest (6 Occurrences)
... Beholdest (6 Occurrences). Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in
thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ...
/b/beholdest.htm - 8k
Pull (32 Occurrences)
... Pull (32 Occurrences). Matthew 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull
out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? ...
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Beam (17 Occurrences)
... dokos) a large piece of wood used for building purposes, as contrasted with "mote"
(Gr. ... "Mote" and "beam" became proverbial for little and great faults. ...
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Moth (10 Occurrences)
... clothes-moth. This is the only lepidopterous insect referred to in Scripture.
Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A mote. 2. (n.) Any ...
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Suffer (195 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Matthew 7:4 or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the
mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam 'is' in thine own eye? (YLT). ...
/s/suffer.htm - 36k
Lookest (8 Occurrences)
... Lookest (8 Occurrences). Matthew 7:3 But why lookest thou on the mote that is in
the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye? (DBY). ...
/l/lookest.htm - 8k
Wilt (324 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV DBY WBS). Matthew 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull
out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? ...
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Thyself (352 Occurrences)
... Luke 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the
mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in ...
/t/thyself.htm - 36k
Either (152 Occurrences)
... Luke 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the
mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in ...
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Bible Concordance
Mote (6 Occurrences)Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Matthew 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Matthew 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Luke 6:41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Luke 6:42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
(See JPS)
Subtopics
Mote
Mote (A Speck): A Small Particle
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