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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #06140 - עָקַשׁ

Transliteration

‛âqash

Phonetics

aw-kash'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

1684

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) to be perverse, twist, pervert, make crooked, prove perverse, declare perverse

1a) (Niphal) to be crooked

1b) (Piel) to twist, distort, pervert, make crooked

1c) (Hiphil) to declare crooked

1d) (Qal) perverse

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 4646 ‑ σκολιός (skol‑ee‑os'); 1294 ‑ διαστρέφω (dee‑as‑tref'‑o);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (5)

Job

Proverbs

Isaiah

Micah

NAS (6)

Job

Proverbs

Isaiah

Micah

HCS (5)

Job

Proverbs

Isaiah

Micah

BSB (5)

Job

Proverbs

Isaiah

Micah

ESV (4)

Job

Proverbs

Micah

WEB (5)

Job

Proverbs

Isaiah

Micah

Verse Results

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2906) s q g (גהקסה GhQSh) AC: ? CO: Crooked AB: Perverse: To act or walk a crooked path as being perverse.

V) s q g (גהקסה GhQSh) - Crooked: KJV (5): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel) perverse, pervert, crooked - Strongs: H6140 (עָקַשׁ)

a^m) s q g m (מגהקסה MGhQSh) - Crooked: A crooked place. KJV (1): crooked - Strongs: H4625 (מַעֲקַשִּׁים)

e^m) s q i g (גהיקסה GhYQSh) - Crooked: KJV (11): perverse, froward, crooked - Strongs: H6141 (עִקֵּשׁ)

e^f3) t f s q i g (גהיקסהות GhYQShWT) - Crookedness: KJV (2): froward - Strongs: H6143 (עִקְּשׁוּת)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

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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List of Word Forms

וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁ וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי׃ וּמְעַקֵּ֥שׁ ויעקשני׃ ומעקש ונעקש יְעַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃ יעקשו׃ עִקְּשׁ֣וּ עקשו ‘iq·qə·šū ‘iqqəšū ikkeShu ū·mə·‘aq·qêš ūmə‘aqqêš umeakKesh VaiyakeSheni veneKash way·ya‘·qə·šê·nî wayya‘qəšênî wə·ne‘·qaš wəne‘qaš yə‘aqqêšū yə·‘aq·qê·šū yeakKeshu

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