Winketh
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Proverbs 6:13
- Last Reference: Proverbs 10:10
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: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H7169 Used 2 times
WINK, verb intransitive [G. wink and wince are radically one word.]
1. To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids.
They are not blind, but they wink
2. To close and open the eyelids.
3. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids.
WINK at the footman to leave him without a plate.
4. To close the eyelids and exclude the light.
Or wink as cowards and afraid.
5. To be dim; as a winking light.
To wink at, to connive at; to seem not to see; to tolerate; to overlook, as something not perfectly agreeable; as, to wink at faults.
WINK, noun
1. The act of closing the eyelids. I lay awake, and could not sleep a wink
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink
2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
WINKER, noun One who winks.
WINKING, participle present tense Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.
WINKINGLY, adverb With the eye almost closed.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Proverbs 6:13
- Last Reference: Proverbs 10:10
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: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H7169 Used 2 times