Words the Bible translates as bloodguilt
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ahimaαἷμαblood: the life-fluid of a body, and by extension a life violently taken or a death that brings cleansing
- damדָּםblood: the red fluid of a body, which the Bible treats as the place where life is held, so that the one word reaches from a literal stain to a killing and the debt it leaves behind
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