Bible dictionaries
Bloodguiltiness
What Bible dictionaries say about “Bloodguiltiness”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Bloodguiltiness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
BLOOD'GUILTINESS, n. [blood and guilt.] The guilt or crime of shedding blood. Psa 51.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
blud-gilt'-i-nes: Found in the King James Version only in Ps 51:14. The Revised Version (British and American) adds Ex 22:2,3; 1Sa 25:26,33. Eze 18:13 seems to indicate that the phrase does not necessarily signify bloodshed, but any grievous sin which, if it remains, will block God's favor to His land and people (compare De 21:8; Isa 1:15). Ps 51 is to be interpreted in this light.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915