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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Blind

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

82exact KJV occurrences 29Old Testament 53New Testament 20books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 71occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Exodus 4:11

And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 3:17

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where blind appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Exodus 11 verses Leviticus 33 verses Deuteronomy 44 verses 1 Samuel 11 verses 2 Samuel 32 verses Job 11 verses Psalms 11 verses Isaiah 119 verses Jeremiah 11 verses Lamentations 11 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Malachi 11 verses Matthew 1814 verses Mark 55 verses Luke 87 verses John 1818 verses Acts 11 verses Romans 11 verses 2 Peter 11 verses Revelation 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH5787
עִוֵּר

ʻivvêr · iv-vare'

25 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences

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blind (literally or figuratively)

Strong's KJV usage: blind (men, people).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Exodus 4:11Strong's last: Malachi 1:8

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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18 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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John 5:3
G5185

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

John 9:1
G5185

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

John 9:2
G5185

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

John 9:6
no direct Strong's tag

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

John 9:8
G5185

The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

John 9:13
G5185

They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

John 9:17
no direct Strong's tag

They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

John 9:18
G5185

But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.

John 9:19
G5185

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

John 9:20
G5185

His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

John 9:24
G5185

Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.

John 9:25
G5185

He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

John 9:32
G5185

Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

John 9:39
G5185

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

John 9:40
G5185

And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?

John 9:41
G5185

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

John 10:21
G5185

Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

John 11:37
G5185

And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

blind

BLIND, adjective

1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect, or by deprivation; not having sight.

2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable to understand or judge; ignorant; as authors are blind to their own defects.

BLIND should be followed by to; but it is followed by of, in the phrase, blind of an eye.

3. Unseen; ; out of public view; private; dark; sometimes implying contempt or censure; as a blind corner.

4. Dark; obscure; not easy to be found; not easily discernible; as a blind path.

5. Heedless; inconsiderate; undeliberating.

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation or blind reprobation.

6. In scripture, blind implies not only want of discernment, but moral depravity.

BLIND, verb transitive To make blind; to deprive of sight.

1. To darken; to obscure to the eye.

Such darkness blinds the sky.

2. To darken the understanding; as, to blind the mind.

3. To darken or obscure to the understanding.

He endeavored to blind and confound the controversy.

4. To eclipse.

BLIND, or BLINDE, See Blend, an ore.

BLIND, noun Something to hinder the sight.

Civility casts a blind over the duty.

1. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding; as, one thing serves as a blind for another.

2. A screen; a cover; as a blind for a window, or for a horse.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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