Hebrew adjective · H6141
עִקֵּשׁ
iqqeshik-kashe'
twisted
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻiqqêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6141is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6141
distorted; hence, false
The King James renders it: crooked, froward, perverse.
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
iqqesh is rendered "twisted". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32:5עִקֵּ֖שׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's eleven 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
- a perverse3
- perverse2
- and a distorted1
- more than perverse1
- more than perverse of1
- perverse of1
- twisted1
- twisted of1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- מֵעִקֵּ֥שׁ2
- עִקֵּ֖שׁ2
- וְעִקֵּֽשׁ׃1
- עִ֝קֵּ֗שׁ1
- עִ֭קֵּשׁ1
- עִקֵּ֑שׁ1
- עִקֶּשׁ־1
- עִקְּשֵׁי־1
- עִקְּשִׁ֑ים1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular5HAamsa
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HAampc
- adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAamsc
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Aamsc
Deuteronomy
one use
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- עִקֵּ֖שׁʾikeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: perverse
2 Samuel
one use
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- עִקֵּ֖שׁʾikeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: a perverse
Psalms
two uses
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- עִ֝קֵּ֗שׁʾikeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: a perverse
A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
- עִ֭קֵּשׁʾikeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: perverse
Proverbs
seven uses
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
- עִקְּשִׁ֑יםʾikeshimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: twisted
All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
- וְעִקֵּֽשׁ׃veikeshconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a distorted
The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
- עִקְּשֵׁי־ʾikeshei-adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: perverse of
The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
- עִקֶּשׁ־ʾikesh-adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: twisted of
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
- מֵעִקֵּ֥שׁmeikeshpreposition + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than perverse of
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
- עִקֵּ֑שׁʾikeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: a perverse
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
- מֵעִקֵּ֥שׁmeikeshpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: more than perverse
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.