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Wallow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of rolling walk.

Wallow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To roll ones body on the earth, in mire, or on other substance; to tumble and roll in water. Swine wallow in the mire.

2. To move heavily and clumsily.

3. Part huge of bulk, wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest the ocean. [Unusual.]

4. To live in filth or gross vice; as man wallowing in his native impurity.

Wallow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To roll ones body.

2. WALLOW thyself in ashes. Jeremiah 6:26 .

Wallow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

3. To wither; to fade.

4. A kind of rolling walk.

Wallow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.

Wallowed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Wallow

Wallower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that rolls in mire.

Wallower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, wallows.

2. A lantern wheel; a trundle.

Wallowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rolling the body on any thing.

Wallowing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Wallow

Wallowish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Flat; insipid.

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8 KJV and 5 BSB verses contain “wallow”

2 Samuel 20:12

And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 25:34

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

Jeremiah 48:26

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

Ezekiel 16:6

And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’

Ezekiel 16:22

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

Ezekiel 27:30

And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Mark 9:20

And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

So they brought him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

2 Peter 2:22

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

Sirach 23:12

There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.