Wallow
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
in the Active Voice denotes "to roll, roll along;" in the Middle Voice in Mark 9:20 , rendered "wallowed."
"a rolling, wallowing," akin to A (some texts have kulisma), is used in 2—Peter 2:22 , of the proverbial sow that had been washed.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Act of wallowing.
(2): ( n.) 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.
(3): ( n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
(4): ( n.) To wither; to fade.
(5): ( v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
(6): ( n.) A kind of rolling walk.
(7): ( n.) A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.
King James Dictionary [3]
Wallow, L., G This verb seems to be connected with well, walk, &c.
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.
Part huge of bulk, wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, tempest the ocean. Unusual.
3. To live in filth or gross vice as man wallowing in his native impurity.
WALLOW, To roll ones body.
Wallow thyself in ashes. Jeremiah 6 .
WALLOW, n. A kind of rolling walk.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Jeremiah 6:26 (b) This type represents the attitude of deep humility before GOD because of sin. (See also Jeremiah 25:34).
2 Peter 2:22 (b) Here we see a type of the wicked who revel in their own filthy sins and iniquities.
