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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Vile

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

19exact KJV occurrences 16Old Testament 3New Testament 14books containing the word 11mapped Strong's IDs 15occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Deuteronomy 25:3

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

James 2:2

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where vile appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH7043
קָלַל

qâlal · kaw-lal'

4 times translated as this KJV form82 total Strong's occurrences

v

to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-) curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set) light(-en, -er, -ly, -ly afflict, -ly esteem, thing), × slight(-ly), be swift(-er), (be, be more, make, re-) vile, whet.

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 3:13Strong's last: Nahum 1:14

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GreekG4508
ῥυπαρός

rhyparós · rhoo-par-os'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

dirty, i.e. (relatively) cheap or shabby; morally, wicked

Strong's KJV usage: :--vile.

Strong's first: James 2:2Strong's last: James 2:2

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HebrewH2933
טָמָה

ṭâmâh · taw-maw'

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

v

to be impure in a religious sense

Strong's KJV usage: be defiled, be reputed vile.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 18:3Strong's last: Job 18:3

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HebrewH5034
נָבֵל

nâbêl · naw-bale'

1 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences

v

to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace

Strong's KJV usage: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, -ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, × surely, make vile, wither.

Strong's first: Nahum 3:6Strong's last: Nahum 3:6

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HebrewH5039
נְבָלָה

nᵉbâlâh · neb-aw-law'

1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment

Strong's KJV usage: folly, vile, villany.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Judges 19:24Strong's last: Judges 19:24

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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19 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Deuteronomy 25:3
H7034

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Judges 19:24
H5039

Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

1 Samuel 3:13
H7043

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.

1 Samuel 15:9
H5240

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.

2 Samuel 6:22
H7043

And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

Job 18:3
H2933

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Job 40:4
H7043

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Psalms 15:4
no direct Strong's tag

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Isaiah 32:5
no direct Strong's tag

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

Isaiah 32:6
no direct Strong's tag

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Jeremiah 15:19
H2151

Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

Jeremiah 29:17
H8182

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Lamentations 1:11
H2151

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

Daniel 11:21
no direct Strong's tag

And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Nahum 1:14
H7043

And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Nahum 3:6
H5034

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

Romans 1:26
G819

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Philippians 3:21
G5014

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

James 2:2
G4508

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

vile

VILE, a. [L. vilis. Gr.]

1. Base; mean; worthless; despicable.The inhabitants account gold a vile thing.A man in vile raiment. James 2.Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed as vile in your sight? Job. 18.2. Morally base or impure; sinful; depraved by sin; wicked; hateful in the sight of God and of good men. The sons of Eli made themselves vile. 1Sam. 3.Behold I am vile; what shall I answer? Job 40.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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