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wickedness

Meaning of “wickedness”

Moral evil, sin, iniquity, injustice, perversity, or corrupt intent or conduct.

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First occurrence: Genesis 6:5

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Jeremiah 23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 23:11 · retained source text

For both prophet and priest are prophane, yea in my house haue I found their wickednesse, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 23:14 · retained source text

I haue seene also in the prophets of Ierusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walke in lies: they strengthen also the hands of euill doers, that none doeth returne from his wickednesse: they are all of them vnto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

1611 marginal noteOr, filthinesse.

1611 marginal noteIsa. 1.9.

Jeremiah 33:5
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 33:5 · retained source text

They come to fight with the Caldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whome I haue slaine in mine anger, and in my fury, and for all whose wickednesse I haue hid my face from this citie.

Jeremiah 44:3
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 44:3 · retained source text

Because of their wickednes which they haue committed, to prouoke me to anger, in that they went to burne incense, and to serue other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

Jeremiah 44:5
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 44:5 · retained source text

But they hearkened not, nor enclined their eare to turne from their wickednes, to burne no incense vnto other gods.

Jeremiah 44:9
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
5 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 44:9 · retained source text

Haue ye forgotten the wickednes of your fathers, and the wickednesse of the kings of Iudah, and the wickednes of their wiues, and your owne wickednesse, and the wickednesse of your wiues, which they haue committed in the land of Iudah, and in the streets of Ierusalem?

1611 marginal noteHeb. wickednesses, or, punishments &c.

Lamentations 1:22
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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1611 witness · Lamentations 1:22 · retained source text

Let all their wickednes come before thee: and doe vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, and my heart is faint.

Ezekiel 3:19
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 3:19 · retained source text

Yet if thou warne the wicked, and he turne not from his wickednesse, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast deliuered thy soule.

Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:6 · retained source text

And she hath changed my iudgements into wickednesse more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreyes that are round about her: for they haue refused my iudgements and my statutes, they haue not walked in them.

Ezekiel 7:11
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 7:11 · retained source text

Uiolence is risen vp into a rod of wickednesse: none of them shall remaine, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs, neither shall there be wailing for them.

1611 marginal noteOr, their tumultuous persons. Hebr. tumult.

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