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# הֲפַכְפַּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2019

**crooked** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

crooked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2019/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲפַכְפַּךְ: adj. crooked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2019/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. crooked, הֲפַכְפַּךְ דֶּרֶךְ אִישׁ וָזָר֑ Pr 21:8 crooked is the way of a guilty man.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] crooked (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 21:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.8/#tree)

הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].crooked \[the\].way of.a.person guilty and a.pure.\[person\] \[is\].upright work his

*JPS 1917:* The way of man is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his work is right.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2019.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2019/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).