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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.

 

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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