Hebrew verb · H6140
עָקַשׁ
aqashaw-kash'
to twist
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâqash
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6140is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6140
to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse)
The King James renders it: make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).
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
aqash is rendered "to twist". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Job 9:20וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and is crooked of1
- and it declared guilty me1
- and perverts1
- they have made crooked1
- they make crooked1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי׃1
- וּמְעַקֵּ֥שׁ1
- וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁ1
- יְעַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃1
- עִקְּשׁ֣וּ1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bs1Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/VNrmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vprmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
Job
one use
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
- וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי׃vaiya'kesheniHc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and it declared guilty me
Proverbs
two uses
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
- וּמְעַקֵּ֥שׁumeakeshconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: and perverts
He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
- וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁvene'kashconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and is crooked of
Isaiah
one use
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
- עִקְּשׁ֣וּʾikeshuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have made crooked
Micah
one use
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
- יְעַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃yeakeshuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they make crooked
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.