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Spot; Spotted
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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spot , spot´ed ( מוּם , mūm ; σπῖλος , spı́los ): The Hebrew word is used to denote a blemish which mars the perfection of the face, as in Song of Solomon 4:7; Job 11:15 . It is translated "blemish" in Leviticus 24:19 f, where it means an injury the result of violence, and is rendered "blot" in Proverbs 9:7 , where it signifies "shame" or "disgrace." The "spotted" cattle of Genesis 30:32-39 are animals of variegated color ( טלא , ṭālā' ; compare Ezekiel 16:16 , "decked with divers colors"; Joshua 9:5 , "patched"). For ḥăbharburāh in Jeremiah 13:23 , see LEOPARD . Spilos is used in the figurative sense of a stain of sin in 2 Peter 3:14 , and similarly along with rhutı́s ("a wrinkle") in Ephesians 5:27 . The "garment spotted (verb, spilóomai ) by the flesh" of Judges 1:23 is, as Calvin has para-phrased it, anything that in any way savors of sin or temptation. The "spots" of Judges 1:12 the King James Version are spiládes , "hidden (sunken) rocks" which are betrayed by the surf beating over them (as in Homer Od. iii. 298), and are so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American). "Spot" in Lev 13 is referred to under FRECKLED SPOT; LEPROSY; TETTER .
"Without spot" in Numbers 19:2 , etc., is tāmı̄m , a usual word for "perfect" (so the Revised Version margin); áspilos (the negative form of spilos ) occurs in 1 Timothy 6:14; 1 Peter 1:19; 2 Peter 3:14 , with James 1:27 ("unspotted"). For the King James Version Hebrews 9:14 see BLEMISH .
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Spot; Spotted'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/s/spot-spotted.html. 1915.
