Bible Dictionary: Speck

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

2. (n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.

3. (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.

4. (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.

5. (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.

Greek

2595. karphos -- a small dry stalk
... 35). Word Origin from karpho (to dry up, wither) Definition a small dry
stalk NASB Word Usage speck (6). mote, speck. From karpho ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3972. meumah -- anything
... Apparently a form of m'uwm; properly, a speck or point, ie (by implication) something;
with negative, nothing -- fault, + no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any ((no ...
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7834. shachaq -- dust, cloud
... Word Origin from shachaq Definition dust, cloud NASB Word Usage clouds (6), skies
(12), sky (2), speck of dust (1). cloud, small dust, heaven, sky. ...
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Library

The Doxology
... star, which you may see now every evening, shining in the south-west, and said to
him, 'My child, that star, which looks to you only a bright speck, is in ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon x the doxology.htm

What Manner of Man Ought not to Come to Rule.
... or a large and crooked nose, if he be brokenfooted or brokenhanded, if he be
hunchbacked, if he be bleareyed (lippus), if he have a white speck (albuginem) in ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter xi what manner of.htm

Conformity to Type
... animals? What makes one little speck of protoplasm grow into Newton's dog
Diamond, and another, exactly the same, into Newton himself? ...
/.../drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/conformity to type.htm

Man's Greatness and God's Greatness.
... But when we are told that the sublimity of those dizzy heights is but a nameless
speck in comparison with the globe of which they form the girdle; and when we ...
/.../robertson/sermons preached at brighton/xviii mans greatness and gods.htm

Be Diligent
... on investigation by Jesus Christ, admits there: 'without spot and blameless.' There
must be the entire absence of every blemish, stain, or speck of impurity. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/be diligent.htm

The Enchanted Ground
... Yet there is one more thing; and, if I ever were afraid of anything, I should fear
to speck before my grave and reverend fathers in the faith the fact that one ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/the enchanted ground.htm

What is Man?
... what is man?" How is it possible that the Creator of these, the innumerable armies
of heaven and earth, should have any regard to this speck of creation, whose ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 103 what is man.htm

The Mote and the Beam
... First, however, the Lord Jesus tells us that it is only too possible to try to take
the tiny mote, a tiny speck of sawdust, out of the other's eye when there ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 7 the mote and.htm

The Arrest of the Body
... animal life. At the bottom of that scale is the Amoeba. It is a speck of
protoplasmic jelly, headless, footless, and armless. When it ...
/.../drummond/the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter iii the arrest of.htm

Various Experiences --Continued
... Continued. Sometime after I got light on the one body, I was helping Brothers
Kilpatrick and Speck in a camp-meeting near Essex, Ill. ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter xv various experiencescontinued.htm

Thesaurus

Speck (6 Occurrences)
... discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that
of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or ...
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Log (12 Occurrences)
... Log (12 Occurrences). Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's
eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? (See NAS RSV). ...
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Plank (5 Occurrences)
... Plank (5 Occurrences). Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's
eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? (See NIV). ...
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Brother's (46 Occurrences)
... Brother's (46 Occurrences). Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your
brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? ...
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Beam (17 Occurrences)
... Beam (17 Occurrences). Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's
eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? ...
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Remove (173 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Matthew 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother,'Let me remove the speck
from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? (WEB). ...
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Clearly (67 Occurrences)
... Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you
can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. ...
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Chaff (24 Occurrences)
... Luke 6:41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye,
but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? (WEB). ...
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Hypocrite (10 Occurrences)
... Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you
can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. ...
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Brother (402 Occurrences)
... NIV). Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye,
but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? (WEB ...
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Bible Concordance

Speck (6 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother,'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 6:41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 6:42 Or how can you tell your brother,'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
(WEB NAS)

Subtopics

Speck

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Log (12 Occurrences)

Plank (5 Occurrences)

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Remove (173 Occurrences)

Clearly (67 Occurrences)

Chaff (24 Occurrences)

Hypocrite (10 Occurrences)

Brother (402 Occurrences)