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Hebrew · Strong's H6140

עָקַשׁ

aqashaw-kash'

to knot or distort

1890 spelling: ʻâqash

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse)

Rendered in the KJV as

make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).

  • 5
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 5
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 5 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 5

  • וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי׃1
  • וּמְעַקֵּ֥שׁ1
  • וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁ1
  • יְעַקֵּֽשׁוּ׃1
  • עִקְּשׁ֣וּ1

How it is rendered · 5

  • and [one who] is crooked of1
  • and [one who] perverts1
  • and it declared guilty me1
  • they have made crooked1
  • they make crooked1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bs1
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular1
  • verb · intensive (piel), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural1
  • verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person common plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bs · 1
  • HC/VNrmsc · 1
  • HC/Vprmsa · 1
  • HVpi3mp · 1
  • HVpp3cp · 1

All 5, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).