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title: עִקְּשׁוּת — crookedness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עִקְּשׁוּת (6143), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: crookedness. BDB 1906: n.f. crookedness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עִקְּשׁוּת

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«עִקְּשׁוּת» 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:** 6143 · **BDB:** עִקְּשׁוּת

### Glosses

crookedness (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

crookedness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6143/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. crookedness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6143/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. crookedness:—cstr. ע׳ פֶּה crookedness of mouth Pr 4:24; 6:12 (cf. עִקֵּשׁ 19:1).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 «עִקְּשׁוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6143/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 6:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.12/)

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אָדָ֣ם בְּ֭לִיַּעַל אִ֣ישׁ אָ֑וֶן ה֝וֹלֵ֗ךְ עִקְּשׁ֥וּת פֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.worthlessness a.person of.wickedness \[is\].walking crookedness of.mouth

*JPS 1917:* A base person, a man of iniquity, is he that walketh with a froward mouth;

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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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