Dictionaries :: Mote

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Mote:

(Gr. karphos, something dry, hence a particle of wood or chaff, etc.). A slight moral defect is likened to a mote (Mat 7:3-5; Luk 6:41,42).

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Mote:

mot (karphos): A minute piece of anything dry or light, as straw, chaff, a splinter of wood, that might enter the eye. Used by Jesus in Mt 7:3 ff; Lu 6:41 f in contrast with "beam," to rebuke officiousness in correcting small faults of others, while cherishing greater ones of our own.

King James Dictionary

Mote: A Small Dry Particle.

And why beholdest thou the MOTE that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the MOTE out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? (Matthew 7:3-4)

Nave's Topical Bible

Mote: A Small Particle (Speck)

Mat 7:3-5; Luk 6:41, 42

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Mote:

"a small, dry stalk, a twig, a bit of dried stick" (from karpho, "to dry up"), or "a tiny straw or bit of wool," such as might fly into the eye, is used metaphorically of a minor fault, Mat 7:3, 4, 5; Luk 6:41, 42 (twice), in contrast with dokos, "a beam supporting the roof of a building" (See BEAM). In the Sept., Gen 8:11.