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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #06140 - עָקַשׁ
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2906) sqg (גהקסה GhQSh) AC: ? CO: Crooked AB: Perverse: To act or walk a crooked path as being perverse.
V) sqg (גהקסה GhQSh) - Crooked: KJV (5): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel) perverse, pervert, crooked - Strongs: H6140 (עָקַשׁ)
am) sqgm (מגהקסה MGhQSh) - Crooked: A crooked place. KJV (1): crooked - Strongs: H4625 (מַעֲקַשִּׁים)
em) sqig (גהיקסה GhYQSh) - Crooked: KJV (11): perverse, froward, crooked - Strongs: H6141 (עִקֵּשׁ)
ef3) tfsqig (גהיקסהות GhYQShWT) - Crookedness: KJV (2): froward - Strongs: H6143 (עִקְּשׁוּת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
עָקַשׁ to twist, to pervert. Arab. عقش and عقص id. Metaph. to pervert any one, in a forensic sense, is i.q. to pervert or wrest his cause, Job 9:20, “(although) I were upright וַיַּעְקְשֵׁנִי (God) would pervert my cause” (in the other hemistich יַרְשִׁיעֵנִי would declare me guilty).
Piel id. to pervert, Micah 3:9. To pervert one’s ways is i.q. to act perversely, Isaiah 59:8; Proverbs 10:9.
Niphal, pass. to be perverse. Part. נֶעֱקַשׁ דְּרָכַיִם whose ways are perverse, Proverbs 28:18.
Derivatives, עִקֵּשׁ, עִקְשׁוּת, מַעֲקַשִּׁים.
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