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# לוּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3868

**turn aside** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

turn aside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3868/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּז: vb. turn aside, depart [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3868/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. (poet., mostly WsdLt) turn aside, depart (NH Niph., Hiph.; Arabic لَاذَ have recourse to, take refuge in);— Impf. אַל־יָלֻזוּ מֵעֵינֶ֑יךָ Pr 3:21 let them not (i.e. sound wisdom, etc., si vera l., cf. VB) depart from thine eyes (v. Hiph.). Pt. נָלוֹז Pr 3:32 Is 30:12; cstr. נְלוֹז Pr 14:2; pl. נְלוֹזִים 2:15;—fig., devious, crooked, נ׳ בְּמַעְגְּלֹתָם Pr 2:15 (‖ עִקְּשִׁים); נ׳ דְּרָכָיו 14:2; as subst. of pers. 3:32; of course of action Is 30:12 (‖ עֹשֶׁק), i.e. crookedness = craftiness, cunning, cf. De Che Di. Impf. אַל־יַלִּיזוּ מֵעֵינֶיךָ Pr 4:21 (subj. דְּבָרַי) let them \[my words\] not depart (on form v. Ges§ 72 R. 9) from thine eyes (strictly, let them not practise, exhibit, deviation, direct causat., Köi. 205).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who is\] crooked (2); let them depart (2); \[that which is\] crooked (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.15/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָרְחֹתֵיהֶ֣ם עִקְּשִׁ֑ים וּ֝נְלוֹזִ֗ים בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who paths their \[are\].twisted and \[they.are\].crooked in tracks their

*JPS 1917:* Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;

[Proverbs 3:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.32/#tree)

כִּ֤י תוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְהוָ֣ה נָל֑וֹז וְֽאֶת־יְשָׁרִ֥ים סוֹדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) \[is\].(the).abomination of.Yahweh \[one.who.is\].crooked and.\[is\] with upright.\[people\] intimacy his

*JPS 1917:* For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD; but His counsel is with the upright.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3868.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3868/): 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).