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# מַעֲקַשִּׁים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4625

**twisted** — 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

twisted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4625/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַעֲקָשׁ: twisted, crooked place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4625/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] twisted, crooked place;—pl. מַעֲקַשִּׁים Is 42:16 (opp. מִישׁוֹר).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rough places (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.16/#tree)

וְהוֹלַכְתִּ֣י עִוְרִ֗ים בְּדֶ֙רֶךְ֙ לֹ֣א יָדָ֔עוּ בִּנְתִיב֥וֹת לֹֽא־יָדְע֖וּ אַדְרִיכֵ֑ם אָשִׂים֩ מַחְשָׁ֨ךְ לִפְנֵיהֶ֜ם לָא֗וֹר וּמַֽעֲקַשִּׁים֙ לְמִישׁ֔וֹר אֵ֚לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֔ים עֲשִׂיתִ֖ם וְלֹ֥א עֲזַבְתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.lead blind.\[people\] by a.way \[which\].not they.have.known by paths \[which\].not they.have.known I will.guide.them I.will.make \[the\].dark.place before them (into the light and rough.places (into).level ground these \[are\].the things \[which\].I will.do.them and not I will.abandon.them

*JPS 1917:* And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, in paths that they knew not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and rugged places plain. These things will I do, and I will not leave them undone.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4625.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4625/): 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).