THE FULL ARTICLE — from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

mar: "To mar" means "to destroy," "to disfigure," "to damage." Job 30:13, "They mar my path" (the Revised Version margin "they break up"); Na 2:2, "and destroyed their vine" (the King James Version "and marred their vine"); compare Le 19:27; 2Ki 3:19; Isa 52:14; Jer 13:9.