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title: הֲפַכְפַּךְ — crooked · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הֲפַכְפַּךְ (2019), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: crooked. BDB 1906: adj. crooked. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הֲפַכְפַּךְ

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«הֲפַכְפַּךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **crooked** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2019 · **BDB:** הֲפַכְפַּךְ

### Glosses

\[is\].crooked (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

crooked [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2019/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. crooked [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2019/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. crooked, הֲפַכְפַּךְ דֶּרֶךְ אִישׁ וָזָר֑ Pr 21:8 crooked is the way of a guilty man.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הֲפַכְפַּךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2019/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 21:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.8/)

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הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].crooked \[the\].way of.a.person guilty and a.pure.\[person\] \[is\].upright work his

*JPS 1917:* The way of man is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his work is right.

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