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2.
(
&
, 2549), “evil,” is rendered “wickedness” in Acts 8:22;
RV
in Jas. 1:21,
KJV
, “naughtiness.” See
EVIL
, B, No. 1,
MALICE
.
Notes:
(1) For the
KJV
of 1 John 5:19 see
WICKED
, No. 1. (2) In Acts 25:5,
KJV
, the
word
(
RV
, “amiss”) is incorrectly rendered “wickedness.”
For
WIDE
see
BROAD
WIDOW
(
)$
, 5503), Matt. 28:13 (in some texts); Mark 12:40, 42, 43; Luke 2:37; 4:25,
26, lit., “a woman a widow”; 7:12; 18:3, 5; 20:47; 21:2, 3; Acts 6:1; 9:39, 41; 1 Tim. 5:3
(twice), 4, 5, 11, 16 (twice); Jas. 1:27; 1 Tim. 5:9 refers to elderly “widows” (not an
ecclesiastical “order”), recognized, for relief or maintenance by the church (cf. vv. 3, 16),
as those who had fulfilled the conditions mentioned; where relief could be ministered by
those who had relatives that were “widows” (a likely circumstance in large families), the
church was not to be responsible; there is an intimation of the tendency to shelve
individual responsibility at the expense of church funds. In Rev. 18:7, it is used
figuratively of a city forsaken.¶
WIFE, WIVES
1.
$
(
)
, 1135) denotes (1) “a woman, married or unmarried” (see
WOMAN
); (2)
“a wife,” e.g., Matt. 1:20; 1 Cor. 7:3, 4; in 1 Tim. 3:11,
RV
, “women,” the reference may
be to the “wives” of deacons, as the
KJV
takes it.
2.
$
(
, 1134), an adjective denoting “womanly, female,” is used
as a noun in 1 Pet. 3:7,
KJV
, “wife,”
RV
, “woman.”¶
Note:
In John 19:25 the article stands idiomatically for “the
( 7
(of)”; in Matt. 1:6,
the article is rendered “her
( 7
(of).”
WIFE’S MOTHER
(
$1
, 3994) denotes “a mother-in-law,” Matt. 8:14; 10:35; Mark 1:30;
Luke 4:38; 12:53 (twice).¶
WILD
(
/ $
, 66) denotes (a) “of or in fields” (
, “a field”), hence, “not
domestic,” said of honey, Matt. 3:4; Mark 1:6; (b) “savage, fierce,” Jude 13,
RV
,
metaphorically, “wild (waves),”
KJV
, “raging.”¶ It is used in the papyri of a malignant
wound.
Note:
In Rev. 6:8 the
RV
renders
(plural) “wild beasts” (
KJV
, “beasts”).
WILDERNESS
1.
(
#$ &
, 2047), “an uninhabited place,” is translated “wilderness” in the
KJV
of Matt. 15:33 and Mark 8:4 (
RV
, “a desert place”);
RV
and
KJV
, “wilderness” in 2
Cor. 11:26. See
DESERT
, A. (In the Sept., Isa. 60:20; Ezek. 35:4, 9.¶)
2.
(
+$
, 2048), an adjective signifying “desolate, deserted, lonely,” is used
as a noun, and rendered “wilderness” 32 times in the
KJV
; in Matt. 24:26 and John 6:31,
RV
, “wilderness” (
KJV
, “desert”). For the
RV
, “deserts” in Luke 5:16 and 8:29 see
DESERT
,
B.