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# עָקַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6127

**bend** — 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

bend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6127/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקַל: vb. bend, twist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6127/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bend, twist (NH especially in deriv.; 𝔗 in deriv.; Syriac ܥܩܠ twist, in der. spec.; Arabic عَقَلَ bind camel’s folded fore-shank and arm together);— be bent out of shape, crooked, Pt. fig. מִשְׁפָּט מְעֻקָּל Hb 1:4 crooked justice.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: perverted (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.4/#tree)

עַל־כֵּן֙ תָּפ֣וּג תּוֹרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יֵצֵ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֤י רָשָׁע֙ מַכְתִּ֣יר אֶת־הַצַּדִּ֔יק עַל־כֵּ֛ן יֵצֵ֥א מִשְׁפָּ֖ט מְעֻקָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.grows.numb \[the\].law and not it.comes.forth to perpetuity justice (dm) \[the\].wicked \[is\].surrounding (et) the.righteous \[person\] therefore it.comes.forth justice perverted

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the law is slacked, and right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth forth perverted.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6127.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6127/): 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).