Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
2. (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
3. (v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
4. (n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
5. (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
6. (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
7. (n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
8. (n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Greek
299. amomos -- amomum (a fragrant plant of India) ... 299 (an adjective, derived from 1 "not" and 3470 , "blemish") -- properly, unblemished,
without spot or blot (
blight); (figuratively) morally, spiritually
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/299.htm - 7kStrong's Hebrew
7711b. shiddaphon -- blight (of crops)... 7711a, 7711b. shiddaphon. 7712 .
blight (of crops). Transliteration:
shiddaphon Short Definition:
blight. Word Origin from shadaph
... /hebrew/7711b.htm - 5k 7710. shadaph -- to scorch, blight
... 7709, 7710. shadaph. 7711 . to scorch, blight. Transliteration: shadaph Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-daf') Short Definition: scorched. Word Origin a prim. ...
/hebrew/7710.htm - 5k
7711. shdephah -- blighted or blasted thing
... blasted Or shiddaphown {shid-daw-fone'}; from shadaph; blight -- blasted(-ing).
see HEBREW shadaph. 7710, 7711. shdephah. 7711a . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/7711.htm - 5k
Library
The Barren Fig-Tree
... Not in the dusk of that evening as they returned, but when they passed by again
in the morning the blight was manifest, the tree was withered from its very ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 11 12-14 20-25 the barren.htm
Letter cclxxii. To Sophronius the Magister Officiorum.
... ills. Peradventure, just as mildew is a blight which grows in corn, so flattery
stealing upon friendship is a blight of friendship. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cclxxii to sophronius the.htm
Things Perishing and Things Stable
... mighty structures, man feels his own pettiness, shivering in the wind, or seeking
a shadow from the sun, and thinking how even this breeze may blight or this ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 13 1-7 things perishing and.htm
Noah's Flood
... some god, they knew not how; always afraid of some god turning against them, and
bringing diseases against their bodies; floods, drought, blight against their ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon iv noahs flood.htm
Infancy.
... can bestow. They live like the tender bud or the opening blossom, exposed
to the blight of a thousand fortuitous events. Hence their ...
//christianbookshelf.org/philips/the christian home/chapter ix infancy.htm
The Cedars of Lebanon.
... hundred years. No rational person now believes that witches can blight
crops or cattle, or that evil spirits cause storms. No one ...
/.../kingsley/westminster sermons/sermon xvi the cedars of.htm
A Last Look-Out
... To feel the hand of death arrest one's steps,. Throw a chill blight on all one's
budding hopes,. And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades.". ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/a last look-out.htm
God's World
... They believed that the Devil and evil spirits had power to raise thunderstorms,
and blight crops, and change that course of nature of which the Psalmist had ...
/.../kingsley/discipline and other sermons/sermon x gods world.htm
Andromeda
... Awed by her own rash words she was still: and her eyes to the seaward Looked for
an answer of wrath: far off, in the heart of the darkness, Blight white mists ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/andromeda and other poems/andromeda.htm
The Night Darkened Steadily Down Over London, -- a Chill Dreary ...
... But if unjust judgment, intolerance, cruelty and fanaticism, should again be allowed,
as once before in history, to blot its fairness and blight its reputation ...
/.../corelli/the master-christian/xxxix the night darkened steadily.htm
Thesaurus
Blight (5 Occurrences)... 1. (vt) To affect with
blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
... 3. (vi) To be affected by
blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
.../b/blight.htm - 9kMildew (26 Occurrences)
... The root-meaning is "greenish yellow"; compare the Arabic yarqan, meaning both
"jaundice" and "blight." Mildrew or "rust" in grain is due to a special fungus ...
/m/mildew.htm - 16k
Grasshopper (12 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/g/grasshopper.htm - 12k
Grasshoppers (11 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/g/grasshoppers.htm - 10k
Blast (28 Occurrences)
... one breath. 5. (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind,
especially on animals and plants; a blight. 6. (n.) The ...
/b/blast.htm - 20k
Besiege (17 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/b/besiege.htm - 12k
Caterpillar (6 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/c/caterpillar.htm - 10k
Pestilence (57 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/p/pestilence.htm - 31k
Locust (25 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/l/locust.htm - 34k
Sickness (40 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is
blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the ...
/s/sickness.htm - 29k
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