Wrest
King James Dictionary [1]
Wrest, G to wrest, to snatch or pull, to burst, to tear.
1. To twist or extort by violence to pull or force from by violent wringing or twisting as, to wrest an instrument from anothers hands. 2. To take or force from by violence. The enemy made a great effort, and wrested the victory from our hands.
But fate has wrested the confession from me.
3. To distort to turn from truth or twist from its natural meaning by violence to pervert.
Wrest once the law to your authority.
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor. Exodus 23 .
Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3 .
WREST, n.
1. Distortion violent pulling and twisting perversion. 2. Active or moving power. Not used. 3. An instrument to tune.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.
(2): ( n.) Active or moving power.
(3): ( n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
(4): ( v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
(5): ( v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
(6): ( n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
(7): ( n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to twist, to torture" (from streble, "a which" or "instrument of torture," and akin to strepho, "to turn"), is used metaphorically in 2—Peter 3:16 , of "wresting" the Scriptures on the part of the ignorant and unsteadfast. In the Sept., 2—Samuel 22:27 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
rest : Found in the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) 3 times in the writings of Moses, namely, Exodus 23:2 , Exodus 23:6; Deuteronomy 16:19 . In all three places it refers to twisting, or turning aside, or perverting judgment or justice. In Deuteronomy 24:17 the Revised Version (British and American) has "wrest" where the King James Version has "pervert."
In Psalm 56:5 ( עצב , ‛ācabh ); 2 Peter 3:16 ( στρεβλόω , streblóō ), it refers to the word or words of God in the Scriptures. In the Psalms the servant of God, who speaks in God's name, complains that the enemies "wrest," misinterpret, misapply and pervert his words. In Peter it is the ignorant and unstedfast who so pervert and misuse some of the difficult words of Paul, and they do it to their own destruction - a most earnest warning against carelessness and conscienceless indifference in interpreting Scripture.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
a screw in a cross or banner-staff.
