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# עִקֵּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6141

**twisted** — used 11 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

twisted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6141/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִקֵּשׁ: adj. twisted, perverted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6141/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. twisted, perverted;—abs. דּוֹד ע׳ וּפְתַלְתֹּל Dt 32:5 a generation twisted and crooked, לֵבָב ע׳ ψ 101:4; as n.m. (of one devious in life) the perverted 2 S 22:27 = ψ 18:27, Pr 22:5, of things 8:8; cstr. ע׳ דְּרָכַיִם 28:6, ע׳ שְׂפָתָיו 19:1, עִקֶּשׁ־לֵב 17:20; pl. אָרְחֹתֵיהֶם עִקְּשִׁים 2:15 whose ways are twisted; cstr. עִקְּשֵׁי־לֵב 11:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a perverse \[person\] (2); perverse (2); \[a person\] perverse (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.27/#tree)

עִם־נָבָ֖ר תִּתָּבָ֑ר וְעִם־עִקֵּ֖שׁ תִּתַּפָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* with \[one.who\].purifies.himself you.show.yourself.pure and with a.perverse.\[person\] you.show.yourself.twisted

*JPS 1917:* With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.

[Psalms 18:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.27/#tree)

עִם־נָבָ֥ר תִּתְבָּרָ֑ר וְעִם־עִ֝קֵּ֗שׁ תִּתְפַּתָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* with \[one.who\].purifies.himself you.show.yourself.pure and with a.perverse.\[person\] you.show.yourself.tortuous

*JPS 1917:* With the pure Thou dost show Thyself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6141.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6141/): 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).