Faults
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 41:9
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 2:20
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
FAULT, noun [See Fail.]
1. Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.
2. In morals or deportment, any error or defect; an imperfection; any deviation from propriety; a slight offense; a neglect of duty or propriety, resulting from inattention or want of prudence, rather than from design to injure or offend, but liable to censure or objection.
I do remember my faults this day. Genesis 41:9.
If a man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual, restore such as one in the spirit of meekness. Galatians 6:1.
FAULT implies wrong, and often some degree of criminality.
3. Defect; want; absence. [Not now used. See Default.]
I could tell to thee, as to one if pleases me, for fault of a better to call my friend.
4. Puzzle; difficulty.
Among sportsmen, when dogs lose the scent, they are said to be at fault Hence the phrase, the inquirer is at fault
5. In mining, a fissure in strata, causing a dislocation of the same, and thus interrupting the course of veins.
To find fault to express blame; to complain.
Thou wilt say then, why doth he yet find fault? Romans 9:19.
To find fault with, to blame; to censure; as, to find fault with the times, or with a neighbor's conduct.
FAULT, verb intransitive To fail; to be wrong. [Not used.]
FAULT, verb transitive To charge with a fault; to accuse.
For that I will not fault thee.
FAULT'ED, participle passive Charged with a fault; accused.
FAULT'ER, noun An offender; one who commits a fault.
FAULT'-FINDER, noun One who censures or objects.
See Murmuring; Uncharitableness
Murmuring; Uncharitableness
FAULT'FUL, adjective Full of faults or sins.
FAULT'ILY, adverb [from faulty.] Defectively; erroneously; imperfectly; improperly; wrongly.
FAULT'INESS, noun [from faulty.]
1. The state of being faulty, defective or erroneous; defect.
2. Badness; viciousness; evil disposition; as the faultiness of a person.
3. Delinquency; actual offenses.
FAULT'ING, participle present tense Accusing.
FAULT'LESS, adjective
1. Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness; perfect; as a faultless poem or picture.
2. Free from vice or imperfection; as a faultless man.
FAULT'LESSNESS, noun Freedom from faults or defects.
FAULT'Y, adjective
1. Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.
2. Guilty of a fault or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty
3. Wrong; erroneous; as a faulty polity.
4. Defective; imperfect; bad; as a faulty helmet.