Bible Dictionary: Victim

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

2. (n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.

3. (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

4. (n.) Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

Greek

4968. sphagion -- a victim (for slaughter)
... a victim (for slaughter). Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: sphagion
Phonetic Spelling: (sfag'-ee-on) Short Definition: a slaughtered victim ...
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4812. sulagogeo -- to carry off as spoil
... Transliteration: sulagogeo Phonetic Spelling: (soo-lag-ogue-eh'-o) Short Definition:
I plunder Definition: I plunder, lead captive; met: I make victim by fraud ...
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3146. mastigoo -- to scourge
... Verb Transliteration: mastigoo Phonetic Spelling: (mas-tig-o'-o) Short Definition:
I flog, scourge Definition: I flog, scourge, the victim being strapped to a ...
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3119. malakia -- softness, weakness
... weakness, illness, sickness. 3119 (from 3120 , "soft") -- a disease or
condition that weakens ("softens") the victim. 3119 () is an ...
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2435. hilasterion -- propitiatory
... Neuter of a derivative of hilaskomai; an expiatory (place or thing), ie (concretely)
an atoning victim, or (specially) the lid of the Ark (in the Temple ...
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4625. skandalon -- a stick for bait (of a trap), generally a snare ...
... 4625 -- properly, the trigger of a trap (the mechanism closing a trap down on the
unsuspecting victim); (figuratively) an , putting a into motion. ...
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1185. deleazo -- to lure
... 1185 (from , "bait") -- properly, to a hook or set a trap with bait; (figuratively)
a victim into a moral trap, luring them in through their own . ...
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2378. thusia -- a sacrifice
... sacrifice. From thuo; sacrifice (the act or the victim, literally or figuratively) --
sacrifice. see GREEK thuo. (thusia) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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5422. phrenapatao -- to deceive the mind
... 5422 ("confused inside-out") means to become the victim of one's own confused --
which then God for it or makes others "the scapegoat." This mind-set is ...
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993. Boanerges -- Boanerges, an epithet applied to the two sons of ...
... which prompted them to suggest the calling of fire from heaven to consume the
inhospitable Samaritan village (Lk 9:54); which marked James as the victim of an ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6453. pesach -- passover
... passover offering. From pacach; a pretermission, ie Exemption; used only techically
of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim) -- passover (offering). ...
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2077. zebach -- a sacrifice
... offer sacrifice. From zabach; properly, a slaughter, ie The flesh of an animal;
by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act) -- offer(- ing), sacrifice. ...
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2282. chag -- a festival gathering, feast, pilgrim feast
... solemn feast day, sacrifice, solemnity. Or chag {khawg}; from chagag; a festival,
or a victim therefor -- (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity. ...
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Library

An Act of Oblation as a victim of Divine Love
... PRAYERS OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE, THE LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS AN ACT OF OBLATION
AS A VICTIM OF DIVINE LOVE. This Prayer was found after ...
//christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/an act of oblation as.htm

Whether Christ was Himself Both Priest and victim?
... OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST (SIX ARTICLES) Whether Christ was Himself both priest
and victim? ... For it is the duty of the priest to slay the victim. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ was himself both.htm

Epilogue: a victim of Divine Love
... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX, ENTITLED BY HERSELF: "THE STORY OF
THE SPRINGTIME OF A LITTLE WHITE FLOWER" EPILOGUE: A VICTIM OF DIVINE LOVE. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/epilogue a victim of divine.htm

Of the Spiritual victim, which Prayer Is.
... Chapter XXVIII."Of the Spiritual Victim, Which Prayer is. For this is the spiritual
victim [8936] which has abolished the pristine sacrifices. ...
/.../tertullian/on prayer/chapter xxviii of the spiritual victim.htm

Christ the Most Perfect victim for Cleansing Our Faults. In Every ...
... Book IV. Chapter 14."Christ the Most Perfect Victim for Cleansing Our Faults.
In Every Sacrifice Four Things are to Be Considered. 19. ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 14 christ the most perfect.htm

O Saving victim, Opening Wide
... III. SACRAMENTS AND RITES Holy Communion: The Communion 331. O saving Victim, opening
wide. LM [1253]St. ... Tr. Edward Caswall, 1849. O saving Victim, opening wide. ...
/.../holy communion the communion 331.htm

Priest and victim
... Priest and Victim. A Sermon (No.2693). ... "He offered up himself;" that is to say, he
voluntarily agreed to be the Victim for this wondrous sacrifice. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 46 1900/priest and victim.htm

Of the Subjection of the Devils, which they Show to their Own ...
... II. Second Conference of Abbot Moses. Chapter XVI. Of the subjection of the devils,
which they show to their own princes, as seen in a brother's victim. ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xvi of the subjection.htm

What a Sacrifice Is, and what are the Species of Sacrifice.
... For the word employed here, 'shm, signifies a victim for transgression; which signified
in the Law that a certain Victim was to come to make satisfaction for ...
/.../melanchthon/the apology of the augsburg confession/part 30 what a sacrifice.htm

Expiation
... Then the victim to be offered was, on all occasions, a spotless one. The
most scrupulous care was taken that it should be altogether ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/expiation.htm

Thesaurus

Victim (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or
in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition. ...
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Covenant-victim (2 Occurrences)
Covenant-victim. Covenants, Covenant-victim. Covenant-wife .
Multi-Version Concordance Covenant-victim (2 Occurrences). ...
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Scourging (5 Occurrences)
... The victim was tied to a post (Acts 22:25) and the blows were applied to the back
and loins, sometimes even, in the wanton cruelty of the executioner, to the ...
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Scourge (24 Occurrences)
... The victim was tied to a post (Acts 22:25) and the blows were applied to the back
and loins, sometimes even, in the wanton cruelty of the executioner, to the ...
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Victims (12 Occurrences)
... Victims (12 Occurrences). Hebrews 9:17 for a covenant over dead victims 'is' stedfast,
since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth, (YLT). ...
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Baal (94 Occurrences)
... Hence, human victims were sacrificed to him in order to appease his anger in time
of plague or other trouble, the victim being usually the first-born of the ...
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Cross (157 Occurrences)
... The victim then bore his own cross, or at least the upright beam, to the place of
execution. ... The victim of crucifixion literally died a thousand deaths. ...
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Monthly (11 Occurrences)
... The very man who has been the cause of another's downfall and ruin is base enough
to plan his own escape under cover of the virtues of his victim. ...
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Satan (50 Occurrences)
... alliance with Satan for any purpose whatever. The agent of Satan is always
a victim. Also the hint contained in this discussion ...
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Herod (45 Occurrences)
... which he had been banished by Antigonus, but the high-priesthood was bestowed on
Aristobulus, Herod's brother-in-law, who, however, soon fell a victim to the ...
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Bible Concordance

Victim (3 Occurrences)

Psalms 10:14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
(WEB NIV)

Proverbs 7:26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Habakkuk 2:7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
(WEB NIV)

Subtopics

Victim

Related Terms

Covenant-victim (2 Occurrences)

Scourging (5 Occurrences)

Scourge (24 Occurrences)

Victims (12 Occurrences)

Baal (94 Occurrences)

Cross (157 Occurrences)

Monthly (11 Occurrences)

Satan (50 Occurrences)