Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5558
סֶלֶף
selephseh'-lef
crookedness
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çeleph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5558is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5558
distortion, i.e. (figuratively) viciousness
The King James renders it: perverseness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
seleph is rendered "crookedness". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 11:3The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
Proverbs 11:3וְסֶ֖לֶף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and crookedness of1
- and perverseness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְסֶ֖לֶף1
- וְסֶ֥לֶף1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
Proverbs
two uses
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
- וְסֶ֖לֶףveselefconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and crookedness of
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
- וְסֶ֥לֶףveselefconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and perverseness
The letters
Gematria 170· 890 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.