King James Bible Dictionary

BLAME, verb transitive [The Greeks have the root of this word, to blaspheme.]

1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; opposed to praise or commend, and applicable most properly to persons, but applied also to things.

I withstood him, because he was to be blamed. Galatians 2:11.

I must blame your conduct; or I must blame you for neglecting business. Legitimately, it cannot be followed by of.

2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish; to injure. [See Blemish.]

She had blamed her noble blood.

BLAME, noun Censure; reprehension; imputation of a fault; disapprobation; an expression of disapprobation for something deemed to be wrong.

Let me bear the blame forever. Genesis 43:9.

1. Fault; crime; sin; that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation.

That we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Ephesians 1:4.

2. Hurt; injury.

And glancing down his shield, from blame him fairly blest.

The sense of this word, as used by Spenser, proves that it is a derivative from the root of blemish.

To blame in the phrase, he is to blame signifies blamable, to be blamed.

BLAME is not strictly a charge or accusation of a fault; but it implies an opinion in the censuring party, that the person censured is faulty. blame is the act or expression of disapprobation for what is supposed to be wrong.

BLA'MED, participle passive Censured; disapproved.

BLA'MEFUL, adjective Faulty; meriting blame; reprehensible.

BLA'MELESS, adjective Without fault; innocent; guiltless; not meriting censure.

A bishop then must be blameless 1 Timothy 3:2.

Sometimes followed by of.

We will be blameless of this thine oath. Joshua 2:17.

BLA'MELESSLY, adverb Innocently; without fault or crime.

BLA'MELESSNESS,noun Innocence; a state of being not worthy of censure.

BLA'MER, noun One who blames, finds fault or censures.

BLA'MEWORTHINESS, noun The quality of deserving censure.

BLA'MEWORTHY, adjective [blame and worthy.] Deserving blame; censurable; culpable; reprehensible.