Spot, Spotted
Spot, Spotted
spot, spoted (, mum; , splos): The Hebrew word is used to denote a blemish which mars the perfection of the face, as in Son 4:7; Job 11:15. It is translated blemish in Lev 24:19 f, where it means an injury the result of violence, and is rendered blot in Pro 9:7, where it signifies shame or disgrace. The spotted cattle of Gen 30:32-39 are animals of variegated color (, tala’; compare Eze 16:16, decked with divers colors; Jos 9:5, patched). For habharburah in Jer 13:23, see LEOPARD. Spilos is used in the figurative sense of a stain of sin in 2Pe 3:14, and similarly along with rhuts (a wrinkle) in Eph 5:27. The garment spotted (verb, spiloomai) by the flesh of Jud 1:23 is, as Calvin has para-phrased it, anything that in any way savors of sin or temptation. The spots of Jud 1:12 the King James Version are spilades, 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 Num 19:2, etc., is tamm, a usual word for perfect (so the Revised Version margin); aspilos (the negative form of spilos) occurs in 1Ti 6:14; 1Pe 1:19; 2Pe 3:14, with Jam 1:27 (unspotted). For the King James Version Heb 9:14 see BLEMISH.