Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
blemish
Usage: 1) blemish, spot, defect 1a) of physical defect 1b) of moral stain
Mum means “blemish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3971 — patroios (“of fathers”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3971 מאוּם מוּם (m'uwm) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. m'uwm (moom) (usually muwm {moom}) n-m. 1. (physically or morally) a blemish [as if passive participle from an unused root probably meaning to stain] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include blemish and blemishes. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
m'uwm (moom) (usually muwm {moom}) n-m. 1. (physically or morally) a blemish [as if passive participle from an unused root probably meaning to stain] KJV: blemish, blot, spot.
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blemish
Usage: 1) blemish, spot, defect 1a) of physical defect 1b) of moral stain
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render m'uwm, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3971.
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
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.
This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
But 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.
For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3971, grouped by book.
Mum (Strong's H3971) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "blemish". m'uwm (moom) (usually muwm {moom}) n-m. 1. (physically or morally) a blemish [as if passive participle from an unused root probably meaning to stain]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H3971 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3971 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as blemish and blemishes. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.