BLOOD

- The life of animals Ge 9:4; Le 17:11,14 - Fluid De 12:16 - Red 2Ki 3:22; Joe 2:31 - Of all men the same Ac 17:26 - EATING OF, FORBIDDEN TO . Man after the flood Ge 9:4 . The Israelites under the law Le 3:17; 17:10,12 . The early Christians Ac 15:20,29 - The Jews often guilty of eating 1Sa 14:32,33; Eze 33:25 - Of animals slain for good to be poured on the earth and covered Le 17:13; De 12:16,24 - Birds of prey delight in Job 39:30 - Beasts of prey delight in Nu 23:24; Ps 68:23 - SHEDDING OF HUMAN . Forbidden Ge 9:5 . Hateful to God Pr 6:16,17 . Defiling to the land Ps 106:38 . Defiling to the person Isa 59:3 . Jews often guilty of Jer 22:17; Eze 22:4 . Always punished Ge 9:6 . Mode of clearing those accused of De 21:1-9 - The price of, not to be consecrated Mt 27:6 - OF LEGAL SACRIFICES . For atonement Ex 30:10; Le 17:11 . For purification Heb 9:13,19-22 . How disposed of Ex 29:12; Le 4:7 . Not offered with leaven Ex 23:18; 34:25 . Ineffectual to remove sin Heb 10:4 - Idolaters made drink-offerings of Ps 16:4 - Water turned into, as a sign Ex 4:30 - Waters of Egypt turned into, as a judgment Ex 7:17-21 - ILLUSTRATIVE . (Washing the feet in,) of victories Ps 58:10; 68:23 . (Building with,) of oppression and cruelty Hab 2:12 . (Preparing to,) of ripening for destruction Eze 35:6 . (On one's own head,) of guilt Le 20:9; 2Sa 1:16; Eze 18:13 . (Given to drink,) of severe judgments Eze 16:38; Re 16:6

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The life of all animals was regarded as especially in the blood, which was a sacred and essential part of the sacrifices offered to God, Heb 9:22. It was solemnly sprinkled upon the altar and the mercy seat, "for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul," Le 17:1-16 the life of the victim for the life of the sinner. It was therefore most sacredly associated with the blood of the Lamb of God which "cleanseth us from all sin," Eph 1:7 1Jo 1:7. Hence the strict prohibition renewed in Ac 15:29. In direct opposition to this are the heathen customs of drinking the blood of animals and even of men- of eating raw flesh, with the blood, and even fresh cut from the living animal, 1Sa 14:32 Ps 16:4 Eze 33:25. Besides the ordinary meaning of the word blood, it often signifies the guilt of murder, 2Sa 3:28 Ac 27:25; also relationship or consanguinity. "Flesh and blood" are placed in contrast with a spiritual nature, Mt 16:17, the glorified body, 1Co 15:50, and evil spirits, Eph 6:12. The cause "between blood and blood," De 17:8, was one where life was depending on the judgment rendered.

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Blood. Blood
(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:29). It has been held by some, and we think correctly, that this law of prohibition was only ceremonial and temporary; while others regard it as still binding on all. Blood was eaten by the Israelites after the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 14:32-34).

(2.) The blood of sacrifices was caught by the priest in a basin, and then sprinkled seven times on the altar; that of the passover on the doorposts and lintels of the houses (Ex. 12; Lev. 4:5-7; 16:14-19). At the giving of the law (Ex. 24:8) the blood of the sacrifices was sprinkled on the people as well as on the altar, and thus the people were consecrated to God, or entered into covenant with him, hence the blood of the covenant (Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19, 20; 10:29; 13:20).

(3.) Human blood. The murderer was to be punished (Gen. 9:5). The blood of the murdered “crieth for vengeance” (Gen. 4:10). The “avenger of blood” was the nearest relative of the murdered, and he was required to avenge his death (Num. 35:24, 27). No satisfaction could be made for the guilt of murder (Num. 35:31).

(4.) Blood used metaphorically to denote race (Acts 17:26), and as a symbol of slaughter (Isa. 34:3). To “wash the feet in blood” means to gain a great victory (Ps. 58:10). Wine, from its red colour, is called “the blood of the grape” (Gen. 49:11). Blood and water issued from our Saviour’s side when it was pierced by the Roman soldier (John 19:34). This has led pathologists to the conclusion that the proper cause of Christ’s death was rupture of the heart. (Comp. Ps. 69:20.)

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BLOOD. → Is the life Ge 9:4; Le 17:11,14; 19:16; De 12:23; Mt 27:4,24 → Forbidden to be used as food Ge 9:4; Le 3:17; 7:26,27; 17:10-14; 19:26; De 12:16,23; 15:23; Eze 33:25; Ac 15:20,29; 21:25 → Plague of Ex 7:17-25; Ps 78:44; 105:29 → SACRIFICIAL
* Without shedding of, no remission Heb 9:22
* Sprinkled on altar and people Ex 24:6-8; Eze 43:18,20
* Sprinkled on door posts Ex 12:7-23; Heb 11:28
* OF SIN OFFERING

Sprinkled seven times before the curtain Le 4:5,6,17 On the horns of the altar of sweet incense, and at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering Ex 30:10; Le 4:7,18,25,30; 5:9; 9:9,12
* Of the bullock of sin offering, put on the horns of the altar Ex 29:12; Le 8:15
* Poured at the bottom of the altar Ex 29:12; Le 8:15
* See OFFERINGS
* OF TRESPASS OFFERING

Sprinkled on the altar Le 7:2
* See OFFERINGS
* OF BURNT OFFERING

Sprinkled all around, and upon the altar Ex 29:16; Le 1:5,11,15; 8:19; De 12:27
* See OFFERINGS
* Used for cleansing of leprosy Le 14:6,7,17,28,51,52
* See OFFERINGS
* OF PEACE OFFERING

Sprinkled about the altar Le 3:2,8,13; 9:18
* Blood of the ram of consecration put on the tip of right ear, thumb, and big toe of, and sprinkled upon, Aaron and his sons Ex 29:2,21; Le 8:23,24,30
* See OFFERINGS
* OF ATONEMENT

Sprinkled on the mercy seat Le 16:14,15,18,19,27; 17:11
* See OFFERINGS
* BLOOD OF THE COVENANT
* See OFFERINGS

→ FIGURATIVE
* Of victories Ps 58:10
* Of oppression and cruelty Hab 2:12
* Of destruction Eze 35:6
* Of guilt Le 20:9; 2Sa 1:16; Eze 18:13
* Of judgments Eze 16:38; Re 16:6

→ OF SACRIFICES, TYPICAL OF THE ATONING BLOOD OF CHRIST Heb 9:6-28 → OF CHRIST Mt 26:28; Mr 14:24; Lu 22:20; Joh 6:53-56; 19:34; Ac 20:28; Ro 3:24,25; 5:9; 1Co 10:16; 11:25; Eph 1:7; 2:13,16; Col 1:14,20; Heb 9:12-14; 10:19,20,29; 12:24; 13:12,20; 1Pe 1:2,18,19; 1Jo 1:7; 5:6,8; Re 1:5,6; 5:9; 7:14; 12:11
* See ATONEMENT
* See JESUS, MISSION OF, SUFFERINGS OF

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To blood is ascribed in Scripture the mysterious sacredness which belongs to life, and God reserved it to himself when allowing man the dominion over and the use of the lower animals for food. Thus reserved, it acquires a double power: (1) that of sacrificial atonement; and (2) that of becoming a curse when wantonly shed, unless duly expiated. (Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 7:26; 17:11-13)

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(1) Of Christ. See CHRIST JESUS (2) Sprinkled Ex 12:7; 24:8; Le 4:6; Nu 19:4; Heb 11:28; 12:24; 1Pe 1:2 (3) Innocent, Allusions to the Shedding of De 19:10; 1Sa 19:5; 1Ki 2:31; 2Ki 21:16; Ps 94:21; Isa 59:7 La 4:13; Joe 3:19; Jon 1:14; Mt 27:4 (4) Forbidden to be eaten Ge 9:4; Le 3:17; 7:26; De 12:16; 1Sa 14:34; Ac 15:20 --SEE Food Prohibited, FOOD, PHYSICAL (5) Upon Men 2Sa 1:16; Jer 2:34; Lu 11:50; Ac 5:28; 18:6 --SEE Guiltiness, GUILT (6) Of Sacrifices, Typical of the Blood of Christ Sheltering Ex 12:13 Atoning Ex 30:10; Le 17:11 Liberating Zec 9:11 Securing Pardon Heb 9:7 Cleansing Heb 9:22 --SEE Blood of Christ, CHRIST JESUS (7) Applied to persons Ex 29:20; Le 8:23; 14:14,25

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blood. Blood, [blud] n. a fluid which circulates in anmals, a family, race, life, death, rake, guilt, punishment for shedding blood, carnal part opposed to spiritual, vegetable sap

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Blood (blŭd), n. [[OE. blod, blood, AS. blōd; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. blōþ, Icel. blōð, Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]] 1. 1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
☞ The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. 2. 2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. — Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters. 3. 3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. Shak. I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. Shak. 4. 4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
☞ In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. 5. 5. The fleshy nature of man.
Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. Shak. 6. 6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. Hood. 7. 7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak. 8. 8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; — as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. Shak. ☞ Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. 9. 9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray. 10. 10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11. ☞ Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. — Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. — Blood brother, brother by blood or birth. — Blood clam (Zoöl.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. — Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle. — Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the hæmoglobin of the red blood corpuscles; hæmatocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. — Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 98½ ° Fahr. — Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. — Blood money. See in the Vocabulary. — Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp. — Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; toxæmia. — Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials. — Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent. — Blood spavin. See under Spavin. — Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary. — Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover , has in it a tinge of blue; — hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. — Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature. — In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. Shak. — To let blood. See under Let. — Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.