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Blind, Blindness
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "to blind" (from a root tuph---, "to burn, smoke;" cp. tuphos, "smoke"), is used metaphorically, of the dulling of the intellect, John 12:40; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 2:11 .
signifies "to harden" (from poros, "a thick skin, a hardening"); rendered "blinded," AV, in Romans 11:7; 2 Corinthians 3:14 (RV, "hardened"); cp. 2 Corinthians 4:4 . See HARDEN.
"blind," is used both physically and metaphorically, chiefly in the Gospels; elsewhere four times; physically, Acts 13:11; metaphorically, Romans 2:19; 2 Peter 1:9; Revelation 3:17 . The word is frequently used as a noun, signifying "a blind man."
akin to A. No. 2, primarily means "a covering with a callus," a "hardening," Romans 11:25; Ephesians 4:18 , RV, for AV, "blindness;" Mark 3:5 , RV, for AV, "hardness." It is metaphorical of a dulled spiritual perception. See HARDNESS.
Note: In John 9:8 , the most authentic mss. have prosaites, "a beggar," RV, instead of tuphlos, "blind."These files are public domain.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Blind, Blindness'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/b/blind-blindness.html. 1940.
