| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A winkle. 2. (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. 3. (n.) hence, any roughness; unevenness. 4. (n.) A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. 5. (v. t.) To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. 6. (v. t.) Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. 7. (v. i.) To shrink into furrows and ridges. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia WRINKLE rin'-k'-l (qamaT, "to lay hold on"; rhutis, "a wrinkle"): In Job 16:8, the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes, "Thou hast laid fast hold on me" (margin "shrivelled me up") for the King James Version "Thou hast filled me with wrinkles." In Ephesians 5:27, Paul's figurative reference to the church as a bride, "not having spot or wrinkle," is indicative of the perennial youth and attractiveness of the church. | Multi-Version Concordance Wrinkle (1 Occurrence) Ephesians 5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) |