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# סֶלֶף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5558

**crookedness** — used 2 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

crookedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5558/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֶ֫לֶף: n.m. crookedness, crooked dealing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5558/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 11:3 Qr crookedness, crooked dealing:—ס׳ abs. Pr 15:4 (of tongue); cstr. ס׳ בֹּגְדִים 11:3.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: perverseness (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.3/#tree)

תֻּמַּ֣ת יְשָׁרִ֣ים תַּנְחֵ֑ם וְסֶ֖לֶף בּוֹגְדִ֣ים יְשָׁדֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].integrity of.upright.\[people\] it guides.them and.\[the\] perverseness of.\[those.who\].act.treacherously it destroys.them

*JPS 1917:* The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them.

[Proverbs 15:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.4/#tree)

מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן עֵ֣ץ חַיִּ֑ים וְסֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝הּ֗ שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּרֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* health of.tongue \[is\].a.tree of.life and perverseness with it \[is\].brokenness in spirit

*JPS 1917:* A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5558.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5558/): 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).