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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Wrest

The Bible

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  • 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: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wrest

WREST, verb transitive [G., to wrest to snatch or pull, to burst, to tear.]

1. To twist or extort by violence; to pull or force from by violent wringing or twisting; as, to wrest an instrument from anothers hands.

2. To take or force from by violence. The enemy made a great effort, and wrested the victory from our hands.

But fate has wrested the confession from me.

3. To distort; to turn from truth or twist from its natural meaning by violence; to pervert.

WREST once the law to your authority.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor. Exodus 23:2.

Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16.

WREST, noun

1. Distortion; violent pulling and twisting; perversion.

2. Active or moving power. [Not used.]

3. An instrument to tune.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wrested

WRESTED, participle passive Pulled with twisting; distorted; perverted.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wrester

WRESTER, noun One who wrests or perverts.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wresting

WRESTING, participle present tense Pulling with a twist; distorting; perverting.


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Wrestle

(Ephesians 6:12). See GAMES.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wrestle

WRESTLE, verb intransitive resl.

1. To strive with arms extended, as two men, who seize each other by the collar and arms, each endeavoring to throw the other by tripping up his heels and twitching him off his center.

Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

2. To struggle; to strive; to contend.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Ephesians 6:12.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wrestler

WRESTLER, noun One who wrestles; or one who is skillful in wrestling.


Naves Topical Index
Wrestling

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Wrestling

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Wrestling

WRESTLING, participle passive Striving to throw; contending.

WRESTLING, noun Strife; struggle; contention.


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  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

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