| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of. 2. (n.) A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition. 3. (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident. 4. (n.) Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull. | Multi-Version Concordance Victim (3 Occurrences) Psalms 10:14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. (WEB NIV) Proverbs 7:26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. (See NAS RSV NIV) Habakkuk 2:7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim? (WEB NIV) |