Lexicon spilos: a spot, stain Original Word: σπῖλος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: spilos Phonetic Spelling: (spee'-los) Short Definition: a spot, fault Definition: a spot, fault, stain, blemish. HELPS word-Studies 4696 spílos – properly, a stain (spot); (figuratively) a moral (spiritual) fault or blemish. Moral and spiritual stains (spots) come from living outside God's preferred-will (desire, 2307 /thélēma, compare Eph 5:15-17,27) and are removed with heartfelt confession (1 Jn 1:9). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiona spot, stain NASB Translationspot (1), stains (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4696: σπίλοςσπίλος ( WH σπίλος (so Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 87; Liddell and Scott, under the word); but see Tdf. Proleg., p. 102; Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 42), σπιλου, ὁ (Phryn. rejects this word in favor of the Attic κηλίς; but σπίλος is used by Joseph, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian, Liban, Artemidor.; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 25)), a spot: tropically, a fault, moral blemish, Ephesians 5:27; plural of base and gluttonous men, 2 Peter 2:13.
Strong's spot. Of uncertain derivation; a stain or blemish, i.e. (figuratively) defect, disgrace -- spot. |
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