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# עֲקַלְקַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6128

**crooked** — 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

crooked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6128/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲקַלְקָל: adj. intens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6128/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. intens. crooked;—fpl. אֳרָחוֹת עֲקַלְקַלּוֹת Ju 5:6 i.e. roundabout paths (GFM); sf. עֲקַלִקַלּוֹתָם ψ 125:5 their crookednesses.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 125:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.125.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.125.5/#tree)

וְהַמַּטִּ֤ים עַֽקַלְקַלּוֹתָ֗ם יוֹלִיכֵ֣ם יְ֭הוָה אֶת־פֹּעֲלֵ֣י הָאָ֑וֶן שָׁ֝ל֗וֹם עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and \[those who\].turn.aside their.twisting \[ways\] he will.lead.them.away Yahweh with \[those.who\].do (of \[the\].wickedness peace \[be\].on Israel

*JPS 1917:* But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

[Judges 5:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.6/#tree)

בִּימֵ֞י שַׁמְגַּ֤ר בֶּן־עֲנָת֙ בִּימֵ֣י יָעֵ֔ל חָדְל֖וּ אֳרָח֑וֹת וְהֹלְכֵ֣י נְתִיב֔וֹת יֵלְכ֕וּ אֳרָח֖וֹת עֲקַלְקַלּֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* in the.days of.Shamgar the.son of.Anath in the.days of.Jael they.ceased roads and walkers of.paths they.walked roads twisting

*JPS 1917:* In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways ceased, and the travellers walked through byways.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6128.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6128/): 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).