Topic
Wax
5 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 22:14Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Psalms 68:2Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- Psalms 97:5Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- Micah 1:4Easton · ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
- Genesis 18:12ISBE
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
waks:
(1) Noun (donagh): Used only in a simile of melting (Ps 22:14; 68:2; 97:5; Mic 1:4).
See WRITING.
(2) A now archaic verb, meaning "to grow," used freely in English Versions of the Bible as a translation of various terms in Greek and Hebrew. The past participle in the King James Version and the English Revised Version is "waxen," except in Ge 18:12. There (and throughout in the American Standard Revised Version) the form is "waxed."
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.