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Amiss [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [This adjective always follows its noun.]

Amiss [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a faulty manner; contrary to propriety, truth, law or morality.

2. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss James 4:3 .

3. Applied to the body, it signifies indisposed; as, I am somewhat amiss to day.

Amiss [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

Amiss [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.

Amiss [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A fault, wrong, or mistake.

Amissibility Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost.

Amissible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Liable to be lost.

Amission [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Deprivation; loss.

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8 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Amiss”

2 Chronicles 6:37

Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

Job 5:24

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

Daniel 3:29

Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be cut into pieces and their houses reduced to rubble. For there is no other god who can deliver in this way.”

Luke 23:41

And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

We are punished justly, for we are receiving what our actions deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

2 Esdras 8:35

For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss.

Sirach 7:36

Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.

Sirach 24:22

He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.

Sirach 40:23

A friend and companion never meet amiss: but above both is a wife with her husband.