Lexical Summary mum: blemish, defect Original Word: מאוּםTransliteration: mum Phonetic Spelling: (moom) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: blemish, defect Meaning: to stain, a blemish Strong's Concordance blemish, blot, spot Usually muwm {moom}; as if passive participle from an unused root probably meaning to stain; a blemish (physically or morally) -- blemish, blot, spot. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3971. mum מאוּם noun masculineJob 31:7 blemish, defect (for מְאוּם, which, although found only late, is (si vera lectio) apparently original form, .Köii. 146); — ׳מ absolute: 1 of physical defect Daniel 1:4. 2 figurative מ דָּבַק ׳בְּכַמַּי Job 31:7 of moral stain; usually מוּם noun masculineLeviticus 21:17 (= foregoing; quiescent א omitted) (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic מוּמָא, ); — absolute ׳מ 21:17 16t.; suffix מוּמוֺ Proverbs 9:7; מוּמָם Deuteronomy 32:5; — blemish, defect (chiefly H): 1 physical, a. in man, as excluding from priestly service, Leviticus 21:17-18, 21 (twice in verse); 21:23; disfiguring man 2 Samuel 14:25, woman Song of Solomon 4:7; (in all מ ׳היה בְּ); as caused by man upon man Leviticus 24:19-20,. b. in beast (reference to sacrifice) Leviticus 22:20-21, 25; Numbers 19:2; Deuteronomy 15:21 (twice in verse); 17:1 (in all מ ׳היה בְּ). 2 figurative of moral blemish Deuteronomy 32:5 (but text very dubious, compare Dr); מִמּוּם פָנֶיךָ תִּשָּׂא Job 11:15; of shame of repulse Proverbs 9:7 ׅ "" (קָלוֺן. |
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