Amiss

Amiss - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

AMISS', a. [a and miss. See Miss.]

1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. [This adjective always follows its noun.]

2. adv. In a faulty manner; contrary to propriety, truth, law or morality.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James 4.

Applied to the body, it signifies indisposed; as, I am somewhat amiss to day.

a-mis': There are two words translated "amiss" in the New Testament, atopos, referring to that which is improper or harmful (Lu 23:41; Ac 28:6), while kakos, refers to that which is evil in the sense of a disaster, then to that which is wicked, morally wrong. This latter is the use of it in Jas 4:3. The purpose of the prayer is evil, it is therefore amiss and cannot be granted (compare 2Ch 6:37 ff).