Mutilation
מִשְׁחַתStrong’s H4893mishchat (mish-chat)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishchat is the Hebrew word usually translated “disfigurement their” and “disfigurement”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.”
Meaning
- Disfigurement (of face)
- Corruption (ritual)
How it's translated
- disfigurement their 1
- a disfigurement 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁחַת mishchat · mutilation
disfigurement (of face)
מָשְׁחָת mishchat · corruption
corruption (ritual)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mutilation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUTILA'TION, noun
[Latin mutilatio.]
The act of mutilating; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
- mutilation is a term of very general import, applied to bodies, to statues, to buildings and to writings; but appropriately, it denotes the retrenchment of a human limb or member, and particularly of the male organs of generation.
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.