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title: סֶלֶף — crookedness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סֶלֶף (5558), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: crookedness. BDB 1906: n.m. crookedness, crooked dealing. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סֶלֶף

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«סֶלֶף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **crookedness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5558 · **BDB:** סֶ֫לֶף

### Glosses

perverseness (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

crookedness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5558/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. crookedness, crooked dealing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5558/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 11:3 Qr crookedness, crooked dealing:—ס׳ abs. Pr 15:4 (of tongue); cstr. ס׳ בֹּגְדִים 11:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סֶלֶף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5558/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 11:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.3/)

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תֻּמַּ֣ת יְשָׁרִ֣ים תַּנְחֵ֑ם וְסֶ֖לֶף בּוֹגְדִ֣ים יְשָׁדֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].integrity of.upright.\[people\] it guides.them and.\[the\] perverseness of.\[those.who\].act.treacherously it destroys.them

*JPS 1917:* The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them.

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[Proverbs 15:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.4/)

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מַרְפֵּ֣א לָ֭שׁוֹן עֵ֣ץ חַיִּ֑ים וְסֶ֥לֶף בָּ֝הּ֗ שֶׁ֣בֶר בְּרֽוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* health of.tongue \[is\].a.tree of.life and perverseness with it \[is\].brokenness in spirit

*JPS 1917:* A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.

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