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vile

Meaning of “vile”

Low, base, contemptible, shameful, dishonourable, of little worth, or in a humbled condition.

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19 occurrences19 verses14 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 25:3

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1 Samuel 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 3:13 · retained source text

For I haue tolde him, that I will iudge his house for euer, for the iniquitie which hee knoweth: because his sonnes made themselues vile, and he restrained them not.

1611 marginal noteOr, and I will tell him, &c.

1611 marginal noteOr, accursed.

1611 marginal noteHeb. frowned not vpon them.

1611 marginal noteChap. 2.29,30,31, &c.

1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · 1 Samuel 15:9 · retained source text

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheepe, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambes, and all that was good, and would not vtterly destroy them: but euery thing that was vile, and refuse, that they destroyed vtterly.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the second sort.

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