Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
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Wild
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Romans 11:24
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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8 occurrences in 7 verses.
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Genesis
11 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
21 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
2 Kings
32 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
76 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Isaiah
87 verses
Jeremiah
43 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
22 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
22 verses
Acts
22 verses
Romans
22 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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שָׂדֶה
sâdeh · saw-deh'
8 times translated as this KJV form333 total Strong's occurrences
a field (as flat)
Strong's KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, × wild.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:22Strong's last: Hosea 13:8
Open full H7704 profile →ἄγριος
ágrios · ag'-ree-os
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
wild (as pertaining to the country), literally (natural) or figuratively (fierce)
Strong's KJV usage: :--wild, raging.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 3:4Strong's last: Mark 1:6
Open full G66 profile →ἀγριέλαιος
agriélaios · ag-ree-el'-ah-yos
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an oleaster
Strong's KJV usage: :--olive tree (which is) wild.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 11:24Strong's last: Romans 11:24
Open full G65 profile →פֶּרֶא
pereʼ · peh'-reh
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
the onager
Strong's KJV usage: wild (ass).
Strong's first: Genesis 16:12Strong's last: Genesis 16:12
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H7704
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
H7704
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
H7704
And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
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wild
WILD, adjective [G.]
1. Roving; wandering; inhabiting the forest or open field; hence, not tamed or domesticated; as a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat; a wild bee.
2. Growing without culture; as wild parsnep; wild cherry; wild tansy. wild rice, a palatable and nutritious food, grows spontaneously in the lakes and ponds of the North West territory.
3. Desert; not inhabited; as a wild forest.
4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; as the wild natives of Africa or America.
5. Turbulent; tempestuous; irregular; as a wild tumult.
The wild winds howl.
6. Licentious; ungoverned; as wild passions.
Valor grown wild by pride--
7. Inconstant; mutable; fickle.
In the ruling passion, there also the wild are constant, and the cunning known.
8. Inordinate; loose.
A fop well dressd, extravagant and wild
9. Uncouth; loose.
--What are these, so witherd, and so wild in their attire?
10. Irregular; disorderly; done without plan or order; as, to make wild work.
11. Not well digested; not framed according to the ordinary rules of reason; not being within the limits of probable practicability; imaginary; fanciful; as a wild project or scheme; wild speculations.
12. Exposed to the wind and sea; as a wild roadstead.
13. Made or found in the forest; as wild honey.
WILD is prefixed to the names of many plants, to distinguish them from such of the name as are cultivated in gardens, as wild basil, wild parsnep, wild carrot, wild olive, _.
WILD, noun A desert; an uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or sandy desert; as the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa; the sandy wilds of Arabia.
Then Libya first, of all her moisture draind, became a barren waste, a wild of sand.
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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