Topic
Deaf
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 4:11ISBE
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
- Leviticus 19:14ISBE
¶ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- Psalms 38:13ISBE
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- Psalms 58:4ISBE
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Isaiah 29:18ISBE
¶ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
- Isaiah 35:5ISBE
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- Isaiah 42:18ISBE
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
- Isaiah 43:8ISBE
¶ Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
- Micah 7:16ISBE
¶ The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
- Mark 9:18ISBE
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
def (cheresh; kophos): Used either in the physical sense, or figuratively as expressing unwillingness to hear the Divine message (Ps 58:4), or incapacity to understand it for want of spirituality (Ps 38:13). The prophetic utterances were sufficiently forcible to compel even such to hear (Isa 42:18; 43:8) and thereby to receive the Divine mercy (Isa 29:18; 35:5).
The expression "deaf adder that stoppeth her car" (Ps 58:4) alludes to a curious notion that the adder, to avoid hearing the voice of the charmer, laid its head with one car on the ground and stopped the other with the tip of its tail (Diary of John Manninghan, 1602). The adder is called deaf by Shakespeare (2 Hen VI, iii, 2, 76; Troilus and Cressida, ii, 2, 172). The erroneous idea probably arose from the absence of external ears. Physical deafness was regarded as a judgment from God (Ex 4:11; Mic 7:16), and it was consequently impious to curse the deaf (Le 19:14).
In New Testament times deafness and kindred defects were attributed to evil spirits (Mr 9:18 ff). See DUMB.
Alex. Macalister
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.