KJV dictionary & concordance
To twist, turn aside, distort, pervert, or force from the proper meaning or course.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 23:2
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill: neither shalt thou speake in a cause, to decline after many, to wrest iudgement:
1611 marginal noteHeb. answere.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Thou shalt not wrest the iudgement of thy poore in his cause.
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
Thou shalt not wrest iudgement, thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and peruert the wordes of the righteous.
1611 marginal noteOr, matters
1611 marginal noteExod. 23.8.
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Euery day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against mee for euill.
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
As also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be vnderstood, which they that are vnlearned and vnstable wrest, as they doe also the other Scriptures, vnto their owne destruction.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To pervert.
