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title: לָזוּת — deviation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָזוּת (3891), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: deviation. BDB 1906: n.f. deviation, crookedness. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָזוּת

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«לָזוּת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **deviation** — 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:** 3891 · **BDB:** לָזוּת

### Glosses

deviousness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

deviation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3891/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. deviation, crookedness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3891/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. deviation, crookedness (fig.);—only cstr. לְזוּת שְׂפָתַיִם Pr 4:24 (on form cf. Ol§ 219 a Köii. 166, 474).

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָזוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3891/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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