Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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Wrest
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2 Peter 3:16
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.
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נָטָה
nâṭâh · naw-taw'
3 times translated as this KJV form214 total Strong's occurrences
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
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Strong's first: Exodus 23:2Strong's last: Deuteronomy 16:19
Open full H5186 profile →στρεβλόω
streblóō · streb-lo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert
Strong's KJV usage: :-- wrest.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 3:16Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:16
Open full G4761 profile →עָצַב
ʻâtsab · aw-tsab'
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
Strong's KJV usage: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
Strong's first: Psalms 56:5Strong's last: Psalms 56:5
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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.
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wrest
WREST, verb transitive [G., to wrest to snatch or pull, to burst, to tear.]
1. To twist or extort by violence; to pull or force from by violent wringing or twisting; as, to wrest an instrument from anothers hands.
2. To take or force from by violence. The enemy made a great effort, and wrested the victory from our hands.
But fate has wrested the confession from me.
3. To distort; to turn from truth or twist from its natural meaning by violence; to pervert.
WREST once the law to your authority.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor. Exodus 23:2.
Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16.
WREST, noun
1. Distortion; violent pulling and twisting; perversion.
2. Active or moving power. [Not used.]
3. An instrument to tune.
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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