DEAFNESS

DEAFNESS. → Law concerning Le 19:14 → Inflicted by God Ex 4:11 → Miraculous cure of Mt 11:5; Mr 7:32; 9:25 → FIGURATIVE
* Of moral insensibility Isa 6:10; 29:18; 35:5; Eze 12:2; Mt 13:15; Joh 12:40; Ac 28:26,27
* See BLINDNESS, SPIRITUAL
* CONSCIENCE, DEAD
* See IMPENITENCE
* See OBDURACY

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deafness. Deafness, n. the want of proper hearing, dulness

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Deaf″ness (?), n. 1. 1. Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.
2. 2. Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.
Nervous deafness, a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.