Bible Dictionary: Mildew

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

(the rendering of a Hebrew word meaning "to be yellow, " yellowness), the result of cutting east winds blighting and thus rendering the grain unproductive (Deuteronomy 28:22; 1 Kings 8:37; 2 Chronicles 6:28).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

2. (v. t.) To taint with mildew.

3. (v. i.) To become tainted with mildew.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MILDEW

mil'-du (yeraqon; Septuagint usually ikteros, literally, "jaundice"): In the 5 passages where it occurs it is associated with shiddaphon, "blasting" (Deuteronomy 28:22 1 Kings 8:37 2 Chronicles 6:28 Amos 4:9 Haggai 2:17). In Jeremiah 30:6, the same word is translated "paleness," the yellow color of one with abdominal disease. 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, Puccinia graminis, whose life is divided between the barberry and cereals. Many other varieties of fungi which flourish upon other plants are also designated "mildew."

See BLASTING.

E. W. G. Masterman

Strong's Hebrew

3420. yeraqon -- mildew, paleness, lividness
... 3419, 3420. yeraqon. 3421 . mildew, paleness, lividness. Transliteration: yeraqon
Phonetic Spelling: (yay-raw-kone') Short Definition: mildew. ...
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6356. pechetheth -- a boring or eating out
... fret inward. From the same as pachath; a hole (by mildew in a garment) -- fret inward.
see HEBREW pachath. 6355, 6356. pechetheth. 6357 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Holy Spirit in the Mystery of the Incarnation.
... To illustrate: A beautiful geranium that adorned the window was killed by the frost.
Leaves and flowers withered, leaving only a mass of mildew and decay. ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xix the holy spirit in.htm

God's People in the Furnace
... A child of God may have his crops blasted, and mildew seize his fields, but that
does not prove his election, for multitudes who never were chosen of God have ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/gods people in the furnace.htm

The Death of the Christian
... When it has come to somewhat of maturity, how greatly has he feared lest
the mildew and blast should shrivel up the precious ears. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the death of the christian.htm

The Oration of Moses at the Rehearsal of the Blessing and the ...
... shall smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with
fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/i the oration of moses.htm

Introduction to the Treatise that no one Can Harm the Man who Does ...
... Do you say for example that the eyes are liable to the evil of ophthalmia, the entire
body to disease, corn to mildew, timber to rot, copper and iron to rust ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/introduction to the treatise that.htm

Smitten in Vain
... city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto
Me, saith the Lord.9. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/smitten in vain.htm

The Pietist and the Perfectionist.
... And this is natural. Pharisaism is not a common corruption, but the mildew
of the noblest fruit the earth ever saw"viz., godliness. ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xi the pietist and the.htm

The Principle of Life in the Creature.
... An insect and a star, the mildew on the wall and the cedar on Lebanon, a common
laborer and a man like Augustine, are all the creatures of God; yet how ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/v the principle of life.htm

On Psalm Lxxvii. Or Lxxviii.
... 46. He gave also their fruits to the mildew, and their labours to the locust. 47.
He destroyed their vine with hail, and their sycamines with frost. ...
/.../the extant works and fragments of hippolytus/on psalm lxxvii or lxxviii.htm

The Answer that Without God's Help not Only Perfect Chastity but ...
... and an earth of iron," and "the cankerworm eat what the locust hath left, and the
palmerworm eat what the cankerworm hath left, and the mildew destroys what ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter iii the answer that.htm

Thesaurus

Mildew (26 Occurrences)
... substances. 2. (vt) To taint with mildew. 3. (vi) To become tainted with
mildew. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MILDEW. mil ...
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Blasting (4 Occurrences)
... Such a pestilence, only prolonged beyond endurance, was to be the fate of the
disobedient. This word should not be confused with mildew. ...
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Blight (5 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Destructive (14 Occurrences)
... the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew...
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Knitted (9 Occurrences)
... the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew...
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Woof (9 Occurrences)
... the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew...
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Article (17 Occurrences)
... the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew...
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Blast (28 Occurrences)
... Such a pestilence, only prolonged beyond endurance, was to be the fate of the
disobedient. This word should not be confused with mildew. ...
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Warp (9 Occurrences)
... the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew...
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Locusts (33 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be
blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the ...
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Bible Concordance

Mildew (26 Occurrences)

Leviticus 13:47 "The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
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Leviticus 13:49 if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the priest.
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Leviticus 13:50 The priest shall examine the plague, and isolate the plague seven days.
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Leviticus 13:51 He shall examine the plague on the seventh day. If the plague has spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever use the skin is used for, the plague is a destructive mildew. It is unclean.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 13:52 He shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a destructive mildew. It shall be burned in the fire.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 13:53 "If the priest examines it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;
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Leviticus 13:55 Then the priest shall examine it, after the plague is washed; and behold, if the plague hasn't changed its color, and the plague hasn't spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire. It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside.
(Root in WEB NIV)

Leviticus 13:56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
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Leviticus 13:57 and if it appears again in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire that in which the plague is.
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Leviticus 13:58 The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean."
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Leviticus 13:59 This is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 14:34 "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 14:35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying,'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'
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Leviticus 14:36 The priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to examine the plague, that all that is in the house not be made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to inspect the house.
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Leviticus 14:37 He shall examine the plague; and behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and it appears to be deeper than the wall;
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Leviticus 14:39 The priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the plague has spread in the walls of the house,
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Leviticus 14:43 "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
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Leviticus 14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and behold, if the plague has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house. It is unclean.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 14:48 "If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn't spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
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Leviticus 14:55 and for the destructive mildew of a garment, and for a house,
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Leviticus 14:57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.
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Deuteronomy 28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

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 land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 4:9 "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Haggai 2:17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Mildew

Mildew: General Scriptures Concerning

Related Terms

Blasting (4 Occurrences)

Blight (5 Occurrences)

Destructive (14 Occurrences)

Knitted (9 Occurrences)

Woof (9 Occurrences)

Article (17 Occurrences)

Blast (28 Occurrences)

Warp (9 Occurrences)