Defect
תְּבַלֻּלStrong’s H8400teballul (te-bal-lul)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Teballul is the Hebrew word usually translated “defect”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;”
Meaning
- Obscurity, defect (in vision), confusion
How it's translated
- a defect 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
תְּבַלֻּל teballul · defect
obscurity, defect (in vision), confusion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “defect” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEFECT, noun
[Latin To fail; to make or do.]
- Want or absence of something necessary or useful towards perfection; fault; imperfection.
- Failing; fault; mistake; imperfection in moral conduct, or in judgment.
- Any want, or imperfection, in natural objects; the absence of any thing necessary to perfection; any thing unnatural or misplaced; blemish; deformity.
All definitions and other forms of “defect”
DEFECT, verb intransitive
To be deficient.
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.