KJV dictionary & concordance
Deeply miserable, afflicted, distressed, or pitiable.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Romans 7:24
Complete exact-word concordance
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from the body of this death?
1611 marginal noteOr, this body of death.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and haue need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Very miserable; sunk into deep affliction or distress, either from want, anxiety or grief.
