'Blind' in the Bible
And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? have not I, Jehovah?
Thou shalt not revile a deaf person, and thou shalt not put a stumbling-block before a blind one; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
for whatever man hath a defect, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or one limb longer than the other,
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or ulcerous, or with itch, or scabbed ye shall not present these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Jehovah.
But if there be a defect therein, if it be lame, or blind, or have any evil defect, thou shalt not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God.
Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way! And all the people shall say, Amen.
and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually, and there shall be none to save.
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land; and they spoke to David, saying, Thou shalt not come in hither, but the blind and the lame will drive thee back; as much as to say, David will not come in hither.
And David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites and gets up to the watercourse, and the lame and the blind hated of David's soul ...! Therefore they say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.
Be astounded and astonished, blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and, out of obscurity and out of darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see;
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped;
to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not, in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Who is blind, but my servant? and deaf, as my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as he in whom I have trusted, and blind as Jehovah's servant,
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.
Behold, I bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth; and among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great assemblage shall they return hither.
They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
And I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men; for they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung:
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Present it now unto thy governor: will he be pleased with thee? or will he accept thy person? saith Jehovah of hosts.
And as Jesus passed on thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, Have mercy on us, Son of David.
And when he was come to the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus says to them, Do ye believe that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yea, Lord.
Blind men see and lame walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear; and dead are raised, and poor have glad tidings preached to them:
Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spake and saw.
Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.
and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:
so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
And lo, two blind men, sitting by the wayside, having heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out saying, Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David.
And blind and lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.
And he comes to Bethsaida; and they bring him a blind man, and beseech him that he might touch him.
And taking hold of the hand of the blind man he led him forth out of the village, and having spit upon his eyes, he laid his hands upon him, and asked him if he beheld anything.
And they come to Jericho, and as he was going out from Jericho, and his disciples and a large crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, the blind man, sat by the wayside begging.
And Jesus, standing still, desired him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him, Be of good courage, rise up, he calls thee.
And Jesus answering says to him, What wilt thou that I shall do to thee? And the blind man said to him, Rabboni, that I may see.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered,
And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind man lead a blind man? shall not both fall into the ditch?
In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.
And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;
But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:
And the bondman came up and brought back word of these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, in anger, said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and crippled and lame and blind.
And it came to pass when he came into the neighbourhood of Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.
In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, awaiting the moving of the water.
And as he passed on, he saw a man blind from birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?
They bring him who was before blind to the Pharisees.
They say therefore again to the blind man, What dost thou say of him, that he has opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.
The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him that he was blind and had received sight, until they had called the parents of him that had received sight.
And they asked them saying, This is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind: how then does he now see?
His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
They called therefore a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is sinful.
He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One thing I know, that, being blind before, now I see.
Since time was, it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.
And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.
And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?
Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains.
Others said, These sayings are not those of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?
And some of them said, Could not this man, who has opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused that this man also should not have died?
And now behold, the Lord's hand is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand.
and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
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- Blind (108 instances)
- Dark (255 instances)
- Dim (26 instances)
- Screen (25 instances)
- Shade (64 instances)
- Trick (16 instances)
- Unreasoning (3 instances)