Topic
Wish
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 31:30ISBE
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- Job 33:6ISBE
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- Psalms 40:14ISBE
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
- Psalms 73:7ISBE
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
- Romans 9:3ISBE
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
wish: The word appears both as a substantive and as a verb in the Old Testament, having a variety of meanings: (1) The substantive, peh, means "mouth" and also "speech." In this form it occurs in Job 33:6 margin: "Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead." Elihu here refers to Job's expressed desire for an umpire (9:33), and one who would maintain his right with God (16:21). (2) The verb: (a) haphets, "willing," or "desirous" (Ps 40:14 the King James Version); (b) sha'-al, "to ask," "petition," "supplicate" (Job 31:30 the King James Version); (c) another variation of meaning is found in Ps 73:7 where maskith, "to imagine," is translated "wish": "They have more than heart could wish"; (d) euchomai, "to solicit," "to implore" (Ro 9:3).
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.