blot ( מוּם , mūm , contracted from מאוּם , me'ūm , "spot"): Occurs in the sense of scorn (Proverbs 9:7 ). In Job 31:7 (the King James Version) it is used figuratively of a moral defect; the Revised Version (British and American) has "spot." Blot out ( מחה , māḥāh , "to wipe out," ἐξαλείφω , exaleı́phō , "to smear out"), to obliterate or destroy: "That a tribe be not blotted out" (the King James Version "destroyed," Judges 21:17 ). To blot men out of God's book is to cut them off by an untimely death (Exodus 32:32 ).
Figuratively: "To blot out sin" is to forgive sin fully ( Psalm 51:1 , Psalm 51:9; Acts 3:19; Colossians 2:14 ). Not to blot out sin is to reserve for punishment (Nehemiah 4:5 ). The names of those who inherit eternal life are not blotted out of the "book of life" (Revelation 3:5 ). See BOOK OF LIFE; BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE; FORGIVENESS .
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