Topic
Wink
9 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- Job 15:12ISBE
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
- Job 15:13ISBE
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
- Psalms 35:19ISBE
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- Proverbs 6:12ISBE
¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
- Proverbs 6:13ISBE
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
- Proverbs 10:10ISBE
He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
- Wisdom of Solomon 11:23ISBE
But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 30:11ISBE
Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his follies.
- Acts 17:30ISBE
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
wink (razam, literally, "to roll the eyes"): The act or habit of winking was evidently considered to be evil both in its motives and in its results. The idea of its facetiousness, prevalent in our day, is nowhere apparent in the Scriptures. It is mentioned frequently, but is always associated with sin, in the Old Testament especially in the sense of conceit, pride, and rebellion against God: "Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, that thou turnest thy spirit against God" (Job 15:12,13 the King James Version). So also Ps 35:19: "Neither let them wink with the eye that hate roe without a cause." "A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes," etc. (Pr 6:12,13 the King James Version). "He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow" (Pr 10:10). See Watkinson, Education of the Heart, "Ethics of Gesture," 194 ff.
In the New Testament the word is used to express the longsuffering patience and forgiveness of God toward erring Israel: "And the times of this ignorance God winked at" (Ac 17:30 the King James Version, hupereidon, "overlooked," and so translated in the Revised Version (British and American); compare The Wisdom of Solomon 11:23; Ecclesiasticus 30:11). The use of "winked" in this connection would in our day, of course, be considered in bad taste, if not actually irreverent, but it is an excellent example of the colloquialism of the King James Version.
Arthur Walwyn Evans
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.