Wretched
Bible Usage:
- wretched used twice.
- wretchedness used once.
- First Reference: Romans 7:24
- Last Reference: Revelation 3:17
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G5005 Used 2 times
WRETCHED, adjective
1. Very miserable; sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief.
The wretched find no friends.
2. Calamitous; very afflicting; as the wretched condition of slaves in Algiers.
3. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; as a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
4. Despicable; hatefully vile and contemptible. He was guilty of wretched ingratitude.
WRETCHEDLY, adverb
1. Most miserably; very poorly. The prisoners were wretchedly lodged.
2. Unhappily; as two wars wretchedly entered upon.
3. Meanly; despicable; as a discourse wretchedly delivered.
WRETCHEDNESS, noun
1. Extreme misery or unhappiness, either from want or sorrow; as the wretchedness of poor mendicants.
We have, with the feeling, most the very memory of such wretchedness as our forefathers endured--
The prodigal brought nothing to his father but his rags and wretchedness
2. Meanness; despicableness; as the wretchedness of a performance.