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# עִקְּשׁוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6143

**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/1506/6143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִקְּשׁוּת: n.f. crookedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6143/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. crookedness:—cstr. ע׳ פֶּה crookedness of mouth Pr 4:24; 6:12 (cf. עִקֵּשׁ 19:1).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.12/#tree)

אָדָ֣ם בְּ֭לִיַּעַל אִ֣ישׁ אָ֑וֶן ה֝וֹלֵ֗ךְ עִקְּשׁ֥וּת פֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.worthlessness a.person of.wickedness \[is\].walking crookedness of.mouth

*JPS 1917:* A base person, a man of iniquity, is he that walketh with a froward mouth;

[Proverbs 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.24/#tree)

הָסֵ֣ר מִ֭מְּךָ עִקְּשׁ֣וּת פֶּ֑ה וּלְז֥וּת שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם הַרְחֵ֥ק מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* remove from yourself crookedness of.mouth and deviousness of.lips put.far.away from yourself

*JPS 1917:* Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6143/): 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).