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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter W, section Wicked to Wonders. (The other sections under W are Wadi to Why and Word to Wycliffe.)

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Wicked, wickedness

• The etymology (root and origin) of the English word "wicked" (which means "morally bad in principle or practice") is not known with certainty. Some think that it may have been developed from Old English wicca which meant "witch", "wizard".
• The 1769 KJ version NT often translates the words ponêros and ponêria as "wicked" and "wickedness". The essay eg08b.htm has some notes on those words. (That essay is about righteousness, which is the opposite of wickedness.)
• Simplified, it can be said that wickedness is the same as unrighteousness (the opposite of righteousness). For more, see the essay eg08b.htm; look also under the headings "Righteous, righteousness", "Sin", "Covenants", "Commandments" and "Law".
• The wicked seed the Enemy sowed. → ew11c.htm
• What the Bible says about the wicked one (Satan the Devil). → ed04c.htm
• Matthew 6:13, "Save us from the wicked one" (or, "evil one"). → ec05c.htm
• The wicked vinedressers of Mark 12. → ed06c.htm
• Wicked kings and rulers. → ew02c.htm
• The leaven of wickedness mentioned in 1 Corinthians 5. → ea10c.htm – ex01c.htm – ex10d.htm
• The wickedness of the Pharisees. → eo12c.htm
• "The angels shall go forth and sever the wicked from the midst of the just" (Matthew 13:49). → et07e.htm
• Why does God allow wickedness that leads to pain, suffering and wars? → ew01b.htm
• The goat for Azazel (Leviticus 16:8, 10 and 20-26) served as a symbol for wicked powers. → ex05b.htm
• Wickedness is the opposite of righteousness. → eg08b.htm – Look also under the heading "Righteous, righteousness".
• The sons of the wicked one (Matthew 13:36). → ew11c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Devil", "Evil, evil one, evil ones" and "Sin".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Widow, widows

• How the saints took care of widows, the elderly, the sick and the needy. → em07b.htm
• Jesus noted that the scribes and the Pharisees "devoured widows' houses" (Matthew 23:14, Mark 12:38-40, Luke 20:46-47). → eo12c.htm – em07b.htm – Look also under the heading "Corban".
• 1 Timothy 5:16-17, "If any man or woman of the faith has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be charged, so that it can relieve those who are true widows. Elderly people who have worked in honest occupations, especially those who are now getting tired, deserve double honour." → em07b.htm
• Look also under the headings "Elderly", "Wife, wives", "Woman, women", "Assembly", "Social welfare", "Good works", "Charitable, charities, charity", "Love, loving", "Sick, sickness, sickly" and "Righteousness".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Wife, wives

• Abraham sent his servant to a far country, to espouse a maid to become a wife for Abraham's son. That was also symbolic of things on the spiritual level. → eb02c.htm – ec02d.htm
• Hosea 1:2, "The Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord." → ey10b.htm
• Mark 7:22-23, "The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean." → ef01b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 7:10-11, "To the married I give this command—not I but the Lord—that the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife." → eo16b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 7:14, "For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband". → eo16b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 7:27, "Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed". → eo16b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 11:5-6 – was Paul talking about all women, or only about married women (wives, as the Greek text could also mean)? → eb11c.htm
• The Old Covenant allowed divorce and multiple wives. → (ec08c.htm)
• The allegory with Abraham's freewoman wife Sarah and his slave-woman wife Hagar. → ec10c.htm – ea02d.htm
• Ephesians 5:24, "but even as the assembly is subject to the Anointed, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything". → (ea14c.htm)
• Wives mentioned in 1 Timothy 3:11. → (ee01c.htm)
• Does the word douloi, "bound ones", in 1 Timothy 6:1-2 refer to slaves, or to married women? → (eo16b.htm)
• Titus 1:6 "the husband of one wife". → ee01c.htm
• Titus 2:5 – was it "keepers in home" (oikourous), or was it "workers at home" (oikourgous)? → eo16b.htm
• 1 Peter 3:7, "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honour to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered". → eb11c.htm
• Where many bible-translations make it seem that Paul supported slavery, the Greek text indicates that he was talking about the marriage-bond – the marriage-covenant between wives and husbands. → eo16b.htm
• Look also under the headings "Woman, women", "Marriage", "Husband, husbands" and "Widow, widows".
• Regarding the roles of women and men, wives and husbands, among the saints – look also under the headings "Woman, women", "Widow, widows", "Husband, husbands" and "Assembly".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

WIL (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Wilderness, wildernesses

• Wilderness = desert.
• A note: The wilderness of Zin is not the same as the wilderness of Sinai.
• The Bible shows that the Israelites reached the wilderness of Zin only 30 days after their departure from Goshen, and that they entered the wilderness of Sinai two weeks after that (45 days after their departure from Goshen). Consequently: Where were those two wildernesses and Mount Sinai really located? → eo06f.htm
• The wildernesses of Zin and Sinai were beyond the Yam Suph – did that refer to some part of the Red Sea, or to "a reed sea" as some have claimed? And, why does the 1769 KJ version never translate the word suph as "reed"? Also, if it was the Red Sea that the Israelites crossed: Did they cross over the Gulf of Suez, or the Gulf of Aqaba? → eo06f.htm
• The wildernesses of Sin (Zin) and Sinai, where they really were located. → eo06f.htm
• The Exodus and the 40 years in the wilderness. → eo06f.htm
• Look also under the headings "Exodus", "Sinai", "Zin", "Arabia" and "Moses".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Willow

• The seventh and last day of the Feast of Booths was also called "the day of willows". Jewish writings tell us that during the Feast of Booths, there was a ritual encircling of the altar, with trumpet sounding. Boughs of willow branches were attached to the altar. Water was poured out, by the altar. On the seventh and last day, the people beat the palm leaves which they held in their hands, into pieces, by the side of the altar. → ex06c.htm – ex07c.htm – (ex08c.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Wine

• The New Covenant's wine and bread. → ec04g.htm – (ex09c.htm)
• Paul to the saints in Ephesus: "And be not drunk with wine in what is riot, but be filled by the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). → ea14c.htm
• Mark 12:1, "A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower". → ed06c.htm
• 1 Timothy 3:2-3, "an elder must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sound-minded, of good behaviour, generous, able to teach, not addicted to wine". → ee01c.htm – em08c.htm
• Titus 1:7, "an elder must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine". → ee01c.htm – ee05b.htm
• Wine in the book of Revelation
  • Revelation 14:8 and 10. → et08b.htm
  • Revelation 16:19. → et06d.htm – et08b.htm
  • Revelation 17:2. → ew03b.htm – ew02c.htm
  • Revelation 18:3. → ew03b.htm – et08b.htm – ew02c.htm
  • Revelation 18:13. → ew03b.htm
  • Revelation 19:15. → ex05b.htm
• Genesis 14:18, "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine". → em01d.htm
• Look also under the heading "Vine".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Wing, wings

• Do angels have wings? → ed07b.htm – ed01c.htm
• The cherubim were large winged creatures – but were they angels? → ed01c.htm
• How many wings did the cherubs have? → ed01c.htm
• Ezekiel 28:14, "I gave you your place with the winged one" (BBE). → ed05c.htm
• Does the Bible really talk about "winged snakes", as some translations make it seem? → ed03b.htm
• Did Satan appear in Eden as "beautiful, winged serpent", as some have claimed? → ed04c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Wise, wisely, wisdom

• Etymology of the adjective "wise" (whence "wisdom" and so on): Old English wis, related to O. E. witan, "to know". In short: Wisdom is connected to knowledge. In order to be wise, one has to have knowledge. And, for gaining knowledge, one must study.
  • The noun "wise" has a different meaning, and refers to "way", "manner". Example: The word "righteous" comes from Middle English rightwise, from Old English rihtwis which was a combination of riht ("just", "good") and wis, "way", "manner". (The essay eg08b.htm has more on the words "righteous" and "righteousness".)
• Matthew 25, the parable of the five wise virgins, the five foolish ones, the lamps and the oil. → eb07d.htm
• Look also under the headings "Knowledge", "Learn", learning", "Understand, understanding" and "Study"
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Withdrawing – The saints were told to withdraw from certain kinds of people. → ea10c.htm

Witness, witnessed, witnesses, witnessing

• The two witnesses (Revelation 11). → et01e.htm
• The ark of the witness (that is, the ark of the testimony). → (ec03d.htm) – Look also under the heading "Testimony".
• "But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established". → ea10c.htm
• For those who are interested: A free, printable word-search puzzle on Revelation 11 and the two witnesses. → puzzle42-p.pdf (More bible-based puzzles. → ep01.htm)
• Look also under the heading "Testimony".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Wives – Look under the headings "Wife, wives", "Women" and "Widows".

WMV (bible-translation) → es09c.htm

Woe, woes

• Revelation 8:13, "Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" → et06d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Wolf, wolves

• Wolves and beasts: When the apostle spoke to the elders from Ephesus, he warned about "grievous wolves", "speaking perverse things" (Acts 20:29-30). In his letter to Titus, Paul warned about "savage beasts, not willing to work" who were "teaching things that ought not be taught" (Titus 1:11-12). → em02c.htm – ee05b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Woman, women

• A note: In the Greek text of the New Testament, the word for "woman" is mostly gunê which could mean both "woman" and "wife". It is good to know that sometimes, bible-translators have rendered gunê as "woman", when the proper translation obviously is "wife". (Point: All passages which mention gunê or the plural form gunai do not refer to women in general; sometimes, that word refers specifically to married women.)
• Should women be "ordained" and be priests (or men, for that matter)? → ee02b.htm
• Genesis 3:15, "And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed". → ed04c.htm
• The woman of Matthew 9 – was she healed by her own "faith", as many translations make it seem? → eb10b.htm
• The discussion between Jesus and the Samaritan woman (John 4). → ea04c.htm
• Romans 7:2, "For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of her husband". → ec07d.htm – ec11c.htm – ec13c.htm – eo11b.htm – ec02d.htm – eo16b.htm
• 1 Corinthians 7:13, "a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him". → (eo16b.htm)
• 1 Corinthians 11 and women (or wives). → eb11c.htm
• Galatians 4 – the allegory with Sarah the freewoman and Hagar the slave-woman. → ec10c.htm – ea02d.htm
• 1 Timothy 2:10-11 (Does the word gunê here refer to women in general, or to wives? And more.) → (eo16b.htm)
• 1 Timothy 5:14. → (eo16b.htm)
• 1 Timothy 5:16-17, "If any man or woman of the faith has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be charged, so that it can relieve those who are true widows. Elderly people who have worked in honest occupations, especially those who are now getting tired, deserve double honour." → em07b.htm
• 2 Timothy 3:5-6: It was not the fooled women who were "burdened with sins"; it was the deceiving men who were that. → ea15c.htm – em08c.htm
• Titus 1:6 – Paul wrote to Titus that a man who was being considered for election as an elder, was to have children only with one woman and had to be faithful to that woman. → ee01c.htm – ee05b.htm
• Titus 2:3-4. → (eo16b.htm)
• 1 Peter 3. → (eo16b.htm)
• Revelation 14:4 (the 144,000 who had not "defiled themselves with women"). → (et03c.htm)
• Revelation 17, the woman sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast (and on seven mountains). → ew03b.htm
• Why is Esau mentioned in Hebrews 12:15? Jewish tradition has it that Esau was an immoral person, and also that he lay with a woman (virgin) who was betrothed to someone else, and defiled her in that way. → ea12c.htm
• When the saints received the Holy Spirit, they became betrothed to Jesus. It can be said that on the symbolical level, that was similar to what happens when a woman is betrothed. → eb01c.htm – eb07d.htm – ec02d.htm
• Regarding specific biblical female persons, see below, and in the other parts of this multi-page key-word index.
• For a list of names of women mentioned in the Bible, see the word-search puzzle puzzle52-p.pdf.
• Look also under the headings "Wife, wives", "Marriage", "Daughters", "Virgin, virgins", "Family", "Widow, widows", "Husband, husbands" and "Assembly".
• For those who are interested – free, printable word-search puzzles:
  • Two puzzles with names of women mentioned in the Bible. → puzzle52-p.pdf
  • With words related to the book of Ruth. → puzzle10-p.pdf
  • With words related to the book of Esther. → puzzle12-p.pdf
  • With words related to Sarah. → puzzle62-p.pdf
  • Large print versions, and many more bible-based puzzles. → ep01.htm
• See also the other parts of this index, or use the search function.

Wonder, wonderful, wonders

• Jesus gave his disciples power, including doing things that normally would be called miracles or wonders. → ea09b.htm
• Jesus warned his disciples about deceivers – false Anointed ones and false prophets who would show great signs and wonders. → eo09e.htm
• The apostle John wrote, regarding a vision he had seen, "And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder—having seen her—with great wonder". → ew03b.htm
• Look also under the headings "Miracle, miracles" and "Sign, signs".
• See also the other parts of this index, or use the search function.

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