Mote
Mote
(, something dry), any small dry particle, as of chaff, wood, etc. (Mat 7:3-5; Luk 6:41-42). Small faults or errors in others, discovered through the magnifying medium of prejudice, are likened by our Lord in these passages to a speck or splinter in the eye, which the censorious are fond of detecting, though guilty of more serious offences themselves, aptly compared to a beam () (see Winckler, in Animadvers. Philol. 3:803 sq.). The proverb was a familiar one with-the Hebrews (see Buxtorf, Lex. Rabb. col. 2080). SEE EYE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Mote
(Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff, etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (Matt. 7:3-5; Luke 6:41, 42).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Mote
MOTE.See Beam and Mote.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Mote
MOTE.The word chosen by Wyclif and Tindale, and accepted by all the subsequent versions as the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Gr. karphos in Mat 7:3-5, Luk 6:41-42 bis. The root of karphos is karph to dry up, and it signifies a bit of dried stick, straw, or wool, such as, in the illustration, might be flying about and enter the eye. In its minuteness it is contrasted by our Lord with dokos, the beam that supports (dechomai) the roof of a building.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Mote
mot (, 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 Mat 7:3 ff; Luk 6:41 in contrast with beam, to rebuke officiousness in correcting small faults of others, while cherishing greater ones of our own.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Mote
Any small particle or splinter. It is used to illustrate small failings in contrast to larger faults, called ‘beams.’ The Lord Jesus was exposing the hypocrisy of those who see and magnify small faults in others, and pass over greater ones in themselves, Mat 7:3-5; Luk 6:41-42.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Mote
A small particle.
Mat 7:3-5; Luk 6:41-42
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Mote
“a small, dry stalk, a twig, a bit of dried stick” (from karpho, “to dry up”), or “a tiny straw or bit of wool,” such as might fly into the eye, is used metaphorically of a minor fault, Mat 7:3-5; Luk 6:41-42 (twice), in contrast with dokos, “a beam supporting the roof of a building” (see BEAM). In the Sept., Gen 8:11.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Mote
Mat 7:3 (b) This word describes what may be a very small and inconsiderate flaw in the life of another person, whereas the critic may have faults and flaws far greater than in the one he observes and criticizes. The mote is in the flaw in the other person’s life, while the beam is the flaw in our own lives.