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# עָקַשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6140

**twist** — used 5 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

twist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6140/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָקַשׁ: vb. twist Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6140/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. twist (NH id. (rare));— Pt. cstr. נֶעְקַשׁ דְּרָכַיִם Pr 28:18 one crooked in ways ( Pf. 3 pl. עִקְּשׁוּ לָהֶם Is 59:8 their paths they have twisted. Impf. 3 mpl. יְעַקֵּ֑שׁוּ Mi 3:9 all that is straight they make crooked; Pt. מְעַקֵּשׁ דְּרָכָיו Pr 10:9 (cf. Niph.). Impf. וַיַּעְקְשֵׁנִי Jb 9:20 (Ges§ 53 n) he hath declared me crooked, devious (in life).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[one who is\] crooked (1); \[one who\] makes crooked (1); it (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 28:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.18/#tree)

הוֹלֵ֣ךְ תָּ֭מִים יִוָּשֵׁ֑עַ וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁ דְּ֝רָכַ֗יִם יִפּ֥וֹל בְּאֶחָֽת׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].walks blameless he.will.be.delivered and \[one.who.is\].crooked of.two.ways he.will.fall at one

*JPS 1917:* Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

[Job 9:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.20/#tree)

אִם־אֶ֭צְדָּק פִּ֣י יַרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי תָּֽם־אָ֝֗נִי וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי׃

*Word for word:* though I.am.righteous mouth my.own it will.condemn.me.as.guilty \[am\].blameless I and it declared.me.crooked

*JPS 1917:* Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me; though I be innocent, He shall prove me perverse.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6140.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6140/): 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).