“to blind” (from a root tuph—, “to burn, smoke;” cp. tuphos, “smoke”), is used metaphorically, of the dulling of the intellect, Joh 12:40<\/span>; 2Co 4:4<\/span>; 1Jo 2:11<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n signifies “to harden” (from poros, “a thick skin, a hardening”); rendered “blinded,” AV, in Rom 11:7<\/span>; 2Co 3:14<\/span> (RV, “hardened”); cp. 2Co 4:4<\/span>. See HARDEN. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “blind,” is used both physically and metaphorically, chiefly in the Gospels; elsewhere four times; physically, Act 13:11<\/span>; metaphorically, Rom 2:19<\/span>; 2Pe 1:9<\/span>; Rev 3:17<\/span>. The word is frequently used as a noun, signifying “a blind man.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A. No. 2, primarily means “a covering with a callus,” a “hardening,” Rom 11:25<\/span>; Eph 4:18<\/span>, RV, for AV, “blindness;” Mar 3:5<\/span>, RV, for AV, “hardness.” It is metaphorical of a dulled spiritual perception. See HARDNESS. <\/p>\n Note: In Joh 9:8<\/span>, the most authentic mss. have prosaites, “a beggar,” RV, instead of tuphlos, “blind.” <\/p>\n Blind, Blindness “to blind” (from a root tuph—, “to burn, smoke;” cp. tuphos, “smoke”), is used metaphorically, of the dulling of the intellect, Joh 12:40; 2Co 4:4; 1Jo 2:11. signifies “to harden” (from poros, “a thick skin, a hardening”); rendered “blinded,” AV, in Rom 11:7; 2Co 3:14 (RV, “hardened”); cp. 2Co 4:4. See HARDEN. “blind,” … Continue reading “Blind, Blindness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"