MIS , a prefix, denotes error, or erroneous, wrong, from the verb miss, to err, to go wrong.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.
The act of taking or understanding in a wrong sense.
Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
To account or reckon wrongly.
Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
Unfortunate.
Unfortunate.
Unfortunate.
Bad advice.
To give bad counsel to.
Ill advised; ill directed.
Ill advised.
To dislike.
To dislike.
Ill disposed.
Ill disposed.
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
Not rightly aimed or directed.
Not rightly aimed.
misallej'. To state erroneously.
Erroneous statement.
A erroneous statement or allegation.
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158 KJV and 128 BSB verses contain “Mis” — showing the first 20. Show all 237 verses (searchable)
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.