Blot
King James Dictionary [1]
Blot, L litura,whence lituro, oblitero. without the prefix.
1. To spot with ink to stain or bespatter with ink as, to blot a paper. 2. To obliterate writing or letters with ink, so as to render the characters invisible, or not distinguishable generally with out as, to blot out a word or a sentence. 3. To efface to erase to cause to be unseen, or forgotten to destroy as, to blot out a crime, or the remembrance of any thing. 4. To stain with infamy to tarnish to disgrace to disfigure.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
5. To darken
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
6. In scripture, to blot one out of the book of life, is to reject him from the number of those who are to be saved. To blot out a name, a person or a nation, is to destroy the person or nation to exterminate or consume. To blot out sins, is to forgive them. Sins are compared to debts, which are recorded in God's book of remembrance,and when paid, are crossed or cancelled.
BLOT, n. A spot or stain on paper,usually applied to ink.
1. An obliteration of something written or printed. 2. A spot in reputation a stain, a disgrace a reproach a blemish. 3. Censure scorn reproach.
He that rebuketh the wicked getteth a blot. Proverbs 9
4. In backgammon, when a single man lies open to be taken up.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
(2): (v. i.) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
(3): (v. t.) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
(4): (v. t.) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
(5): (n.) A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
(6): (n.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
(7): (n.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
(8): (n.) A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
(9): (v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; - generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
(10): (n.) A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
(11): (v. t.) To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
(12): (v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
(13): (v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [3]
Job 31:7 Proverbs 9:7 Psalm 51:1,9 Isaiah 44:22 Acts 3:19 Colossians 2:14
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Proverbs 9:7 (b) The Lord is telling us that when an outsider interferes with the evil actions of another, he is quite apt to receive an injury to himself, which may be seen also by others. It becomes a blemish on his life.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
blot ( מוּם , mūm , contracted from מאוּם , me'ūm , "spot"): Occurs in the sense of scorn ( Proverbs 9:7 ). In Job 31:7 (the King James Version) it is used figuratively of a moral defect; the Revised Version (British and American) has "spot." Blot out ( מחה , māḥāh , "to wipe out," ἐξαλείφω , exaleı́phō , "to smear out"), to obliterate or destroy: "That a tribe be not blotted out" (the King James Version "destroyed," Judges 21:17 ). To blot men out of God's book is to cut them off by an untimely death ( Exodus 32:32 ).
Figuratively: "To blot out sin" is to forgive sin fully ( Psalm 51:1 , Psalm 51:9; Acts 3:19; Colossians 2:14 ). Not to blot out sin is to reserve for punishment ( Nehemiah 4:5 ). The names of those who inherit eternal life are not blotted out of the "book of life" ( Revelation 3:5 ). See Book Of Life; Book Of Remembrance; Forgiveness .
