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mar : "To mar" means "to destroy," "to disfigure," "to damage." Job 30:13 , "They mar my path" (the Revised Version margin "they break up"); Nahum 2:2 , "and destroyed their vine" (the King James Version "and marred their vine"); compare Leviticus 19:27; 2 Kings 3:19; Isaiah 52:14; Jeremiah 13:9 .

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Mar'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​isb/​m/mar.html. 1915.
 
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