Spot
חֲבַרְבֻּרָהStrong’s H2272chavarburah (cha-var-bu-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chavarburah is the Hebrew word usually translated “spots its”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
Meaning
- Spots, stripe, mark
How it's translated
- spots its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חֲבַרְבֻּרָה chavarburah · spot
spots, stripe, mark
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPOT, noun
[We see this word is of the family of spatter, and that the radical sense is to throw or thrust. A spot is made by spattering or sprinkling.
- A mark on a substance made by foreign matter; a speck; a blot; a place discolored.
- A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
- A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
- A place of a different color from the ground; as the spots of a leopard.
All definitions and other forms of “spot”
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
- A dark place on the disk or face of the sun or of a planet.
- A lucid place in the heavens.
SPOT, verb transitive
- To make a visible mark with some foreign matter; to discolor; to stain; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.
- To patch by way of ornament.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish; as reputation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.