bloodguilt , auch: bloodguiltiness

The imperative is against unlawful killing resulting in bloodguilt.

Fleeing bloodguilt, a murder; he had killed his father or father-in-law, I forget which, in some hill-tribe dispute over a girl.

He will absolve you of the bloodguilt.'

Blood guilt or Bloodguilt may refer to:

When Jesus appeared before Pilate, both Pilate and the crowd recognize the principles of bloodguilt.

The New Testament is in agreement that murder is a grave moral evil, and maintains the Old Testament view of bloodguilt.

The act of slaying itself, regardless of questions of bloodguilt, is expressed with the verb n-k-h "to strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill".

This expresses the idea that those guilty of certain actions have brought the shedding of blood upon themselves, and those carrying out due punishment do not bear bloodguilt.

In his charge to his son Solomon, King David ordered him to deal with the bloodguilt of Joab, who had murdered Abner and Amasa.

"In case you build a new house, you must also make a parapet for your roof, that you may not place bloodguilt upon your house because someone falling might fall from it."

Scene 2: Arkas brings the King's command to hasten the sacrifice: Iphigenia tells him that the prisoner's bloodguilt has polluted the temple, and that she must first purify it.

But if the slayer ever left the city of refuge, and the blood-avenger came upon the slayer outside the city limits, then there would be no bloodguilt if the blood-avenger killed the slayer.

The modern Catechism of the Catholic Church as developed and published in the 1990s under John Paul II, asserts that the prohibition of murder stems from man being created in God's image and recognizes the principles of bloodguilt as being necessary for all time.