(n.) See Villainy.VILE, VILLANY

vil, vil'-an-i: The original words for "vile" and "villany" are used in about 10 different senses, e.g. despised (1 Samuel 15:9), despicable (Daniel 11:21 the King James Version), lightly esteemed (Deuteronomy 25:3), empty (Judges 19:24 the King James Version), foolish (Isaiah 32:6, the King James Version and the English Revised Version), dishonorable (Romans 1:26), filthy or dirty (James 2:2), humiliation (Philippians 3:21).

Villany occurs but twice in the King James Version (Isaiah 32:6 Jeremiah 29:23), and signifies emptiness or folly (so the Revised Version (British and American)). From the foregoing meanings it will be seen that the word "vile" does not always bear the meaning which has come to be invariably given it in our present-day speech. Anything common or ordinary or humble might, in the Scriptural sense, be termed "vile." So Job 40:4, the Revised Version (British and American) "Behold, I am of small account"; also "the low estate of his handmaid" (Luke 1:48). Ordinarily, however, the idea of contemptible, despicable, is read into the word.

William Evans

VILLANY

See VILE.

5039. nebalah -- senselessness, disgrace
... folly, vile, villany. Feminine of nabal; foolishness, ie (morally) wickedness;
concretely, a crime; by extension, punishment -- folly, vile, villany. ...
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The Seventh Commandment
... crime.' Job 31:2: Every failing is not a crime; and every crime is not a heinous
crime; but adultery is flagitium, a heinous crime.' The Lord calls it villany. ...
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The Life of St. Silvester.
... unto holy church, the first was that all the city should worship Jesu Christ as
very God, the second thing was that whosoever should say any villany of Jesu ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the life of st silvester.htm

And Leaving all These Reflections, I Considered and Turned in ...
... And a wise man would choose to have one of his hands full, if it were with ease
and quietness, rather than both of them with travail and with the villany of a ...
/.../a metaphrase of the book of ecclesiastes/chapter iv and leaving all.htm

An Epistle on Charity.
... fell outward cheer, and have no privy hate in thine heart for to despise him, or
judge him, or for to set him at naught: and the more shame and villany he does ...
/.../the form of perfect living and other prose treatises/an epistle on charity.htm

Here Followeth the Life of Abraham
... his presence. And when she was come, God of his good grace so purveyed for
her, that no man had power to do her villany. Wherefore ...
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Secondly, for Thy Words.
... fall out, yet Christian love, the main ground of your friendship, will never fall
away; and the fear of God will never suffer him to do thee any villany. ...
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Epistle of Adrian in Behalf of the Christians.
... and this communication I am unwilling to pass over in silence, lest innocent persons
be disturbed, and occasion be given to the informers for practising villany ...
/.../justin/the first apology of justin/epistle of adrian in behalf.htm

Acts xiii. 4, 5
... he is ordained, as it was in Peter's case, [652] ""filled with the Holy Ghost, looked
upon him, and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou child of ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxviii acts xiii 4.htm

The Paralytic Let Down through the Roof.
... For material riches are liable to the designs of robbers, and the tales of false
accusers, and the violence of housebreakers, and the villany of servants, and ...
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Simon Magus.
... art of Thrasymedes, in the manner in which we have explained above, [611] and partly
also by the assistance of demons perpetrating his villany, attempted to ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter ii simon magus.htm

Villany (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) See Villainy. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. VILE,
VILLANY. ... William Evans. VILLANY. See VILE. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Vile (59 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God
and men; sinful; wicked; bad. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. VILE, VILLANY...
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Lewdness (68 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness
in the modern sense of the word. The word "lewd" is ...
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Vindicate (18 Occurrences)

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Villainy (4 Occurrences)

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Lewd (37 Occurrences)
... Acts 18:14, and is correctly translated in the Revised Version (British and American)
and the American Standard Revised Version "wicked villany." The thought ...
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Guile (21 Occurrences)
... Acts 13:10 and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil,
thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways ...
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Fool (95 Occurrences)
... In Isaiah 32:5, 6 the King James Version nabhal is translated "vile person" and
nebhalah "villany," the Revised Version (British and American) "fool" and "folly ...
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Folly (68 Occurrences)
... In Isaiah 32:5, 6 the King James Version nabhal is translated "vile person" and
nebhalah "villany," the Revised Version (British and American) "fool" and "folly ...
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Mischief (64 Occurrences)
... Sometimes the Revised Version (British and American) changes the word, as to "evil"
(Exodus 32:12, 22); in Acts 13:10, to "villany" (rhadiourgia). ...
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Villany (4 Occurrences)

Acts 13:10 and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
(ASV)

Acts 18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
(ASV)

Isaiah 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
(KJV)

Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
(KJV)

Villany

Vile (59 Occurrences)

Lewdness (68 Occurrences)

Vindicate (18 Occurrences)

Villainy (4 Occurrences)

Lewd (37 Occurrences)

Guile (21 Occurrences)

Fool (95 Occurrences)

Folly (68 Occurrences)

Mischief (64 Occurrences)

Subtil (3 Occurrences)

Subtlety (3 Occurrences)

Subtilty (9 Occurrences)

Subtle (5 Occurrences)

Neighbours (34 Occurrences)

Hypocrisy (11 Occurrences)

Susanna (1 Occurrence)

Practise (52 Occurrences)

History (57 Occurrences)

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