Wist

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]

1: Ὡς (Strong'S #5613 — Adverb — oida — hoce )

"to know," in the pluperfect tense (with imperfect meaning) is rendered "wist" (the past tense of the verb "to wit:" cp. WOT) in  Mark 9:6;  14:40;  Luke 2:49;  John 5:13;  Acts 12:9;  23:5 . See Know , No. 2.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [2]

Knew; the past tense, from an obsolete present wis,  Exodus 16:15 . Wot and wotteth, meaning know and knoweth,  Genesis 21:26   39:8 , and to wit, meaning to know,  Genesis 24:21 , are also from the same Saxon root. "Do you to wit,"  2 Corinthians 8:1 , means, make you to know, or inform you. "To wit," in  2 Corinthians 5:19 , means, that is to say.

Webster's Dictionary [3]

(1): ( p. p.) of Wit

(2): ( v.) Knew.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]

WIST . See Wit.

King James Dictionary [5]

WIST, pret. of wis.

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