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title: עָקַל — bend · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָקַל (6127), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bend. BDB 1906: vb. bend, twist. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָקַל

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«עָקַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bend** — 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:** 6127 · **BDB:** עָקַל

### Glosses

perverted (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bend [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6127/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bend, twist [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6127/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bend, twist (NH especially in deriv.; 𝔗 in deriv.; Syriac ܥܩܠ twist, in der. spec.; Arabic عَقَلَ bind camel’s folded fore-shank and arm together);— be bent out of shape, crooked, Pt. fig. מִשְׁפָּט מְעֻקָּל Hb 1:4 crooked justice.

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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 (1 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 «עָקַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6127/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Habakkuk 1:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.4/)

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עַל־כֵּן֙ תָּפ֣וּג תּוֹרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יֵצֵ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֤י רָשָׁע֙ מַכְתִּ֣יר אֶת־הַצַּדִּ֔יק עַל־כֵּ֛ן יֵצֵ֥א מִשְׁפָּ֖ט מְעֻקָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.grows.numb \[the\].law and not it.comes.forth to perpetuity justice (dm) \[the\].wicked \[is\].surrounding (et) the.righteous \[person\] therefore it.comes.forth justice perverted

*JPS 1917:* Therefore the law is slacked, and right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth forth perverted.

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