Bible Dictionary: Wily

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Full of tricks, or stratagems; clever; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

Library

The Wily Judas Watches Near
... The wily Judas watches near. tr., John Brownlie 8,6,8,6,8,8. semeron gregorei ho
Ioudas. ... III. ho autos. I. The wily Judas watches near. The Master's path to-day, ...
/.../brownlie/hymns of the greek church/the wily judas watches near.htm

The Empress Eudoxia from the Story of Christian Womanhood in Old ...
... While Rufinus, in secret with his confidants, nurtured this idea, the wily head
of the opposite party of the court, getting an inkling of it, set everything in ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/ix the empress eudoxia from.htm

Impressive Phrases
... art, science, knowledge, and culture. artful, wily, insincere, and disingenuous. ...
traffic, trade, commerce, and intercourse. tricky, insincere, wily, and shifty. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

Womanhood of the Byzantine Decadence
... she, and she was compelled to submit. But Cantacuzenus was as wily as he
was ambitious. Recognizing the strength of his opponents ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/xv womanhood of the byzantine.htm

Sanctified by Faith.
... Adam believed God and was obedient and happy, and the first thing that the wily
tempter attacked, and, alas, with too much success, was man's faith. ...
/.../clark/the theology of holiness/chapter xv sanctified by faith.htm

Sureness
... We have a wily old Devil to deal with, and I believe that nothing gives him more
malicious delight than to get sincere souls into the bondage of fear as to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/howard/standards of life and service/vi sureness.htm

General Service to John, Precursor, Prophet and Baptist of the ...
... guardian of my humble soul, do vouchsafe unto me graciousness through thine
intercessions, delivering me from the serpent, his crafty and wily slanders and ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter v general service to.htm

Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Duty to New and Old Man.
... And so powerful and wily is our old evil foe that wherever he can gain enough of
an opening to insert one of his claws, he thrusts in his whole self and will ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/nineteenth sunday after trinity duty.htm

Twenty-Sixth Day. Guilelessness.
... polish, often only a cloak for baseness and selfishness!"in the daily interchange
of business, one seeking to over-reach the other by wily arts; sacrificing ...
/.../macduff/the mind of jesus/twenty-sixth day guilelessness.htm

The Sack of Rome
... before the conqueror. People talked with approval of this wily measure
in which they saw a promise of new liberties. But applause ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/i the sack of rome.htm

Thesaurus

Wily (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Wily (2 Occurrences). ... Proverbs 7:10 And, behold, there
met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart. ...
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Wilted (1 Occurrence)

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Wimple

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Furniture (24 Occurrences)
... Upon this saddle-basket Rachel sat with the teraphim hidden beneath, and her wily
father did not suspect the presence of his gods in such a place. ...
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Dyed (10 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 7:10) in his description of the "strange woman," that "lieth in wait at
every street corner," "a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart ...
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Deceit (160 Occurrences)
... any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to
believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud ...
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Crafty (15 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. 3. (a.) Skillful at deceiving others;
characterized by craft; cunning; wily. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Attire (11 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 7:10) in his description of the "strange woman," that "lieth in wait at
every street corner," "a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart ...
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Subtil (3 Occurrences)
... subtly"; Proverbs 7:10, natsar, "to watch," "guard," "to be hidden or subtle of
heart," the Revised Version (British and American) "wily," margin " `close ...
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Shrewd (14 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Astute; sharp; wily; cunning; as, a shrewd
politician. 2. (a.) Inclining to shrew; disposing to ...
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Bible Concordance

Wily (2 Occurrences)

Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
(See JPS DBY RSV NIV)

Proverbs 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
(See JPS ASV RSV)

Subtopics

Wily

Related Terms

Wilted (1 Occurrence)

Wimple

Furniture (24 Occurrences)

Dyed (10 Occurrences)

Deceit (160 Occurrences)