King James Bible Dictionary

WREST, verb transitive [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 23:2.

Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16.

WREST, noun

1. Distortion; violent pulling and twisting; perversion.

2. Active or moving power. [Not used.]

3. An instrument to tune.

WRESTED, participle passive Pulled with twisting; distorted; perverted.

WRESTER, noun One who wrests or perverts.

WRESTING, participle present tense Pulling with a twist; distorting; perverting.

(Ephesians 6:12). See GAMES.

WRESTLE, verb intransitive resl.

1. To strive with arms extended, as two men, who seize each other by the collar and arms, each endeavoring to throw the other by tripping up his heels and twitching him off his center.

Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

2. To struggle; to strive; to contend.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Ephesians 6:12.

WRESTLER, noun One who wrestles; or one who is skillful in wrestling.

Figurative; Genesis 30:8; Genesis 32:24-25; Ephesians 6:12

[GAMES]

WRESTLING, participle passive Striving to throw; contending.

WRESTLING, noun Strife; struggle; contention.