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Wist [Preterit tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

of wis.

Wist [E] Webster's Dictionary 1913

(imp.) of Wit

Wist [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Wit

Wist [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Knew.

Wistaria [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers.

Wistful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Full of thoughts; earnest; attentive.

2. Why--dost thou so wistful seem?

Wistful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Longing; wishful; desirous.

2. Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

Wistfully [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Attentively; earnestly.

Wistit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The striated monkey; a small species of monkey from South America, with an annulated tail, the ouistiti of Buffon.

Wistit [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small South American monkey; a marmoset.

Wistly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Earnestly.

Wistly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Attentively; observingly.

Wistonwish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Wishtonwish.

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Exodus 16:15

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Exodus 34:29

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD.

Leviticus 5:17

And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

If someone sins and violates any of the LORD’s commandments even though he was unaware, he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.

Leviticus 5:18

And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

He is to bring to the priest an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven.

Joshua 2:4

And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

Joshua 8:14

And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

Judges 16:20

And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

Mark 9:6

For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.

For they were all so terrified that Peter did not know what else to say.

Mark 14:40

And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.

And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.

Luke 2:49

And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

John 5:13

And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while the crowd was there.

Acts 12:9

And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.

So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

Acts 23:5

Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

“Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”