Strong’s H6140 · Hebrew
עָקַשׁ
ʻâqash · aw-kash'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse)
In the King James Version make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Job 9:20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- Proverbs 10:9He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
- Proverbs 28:18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
- Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
- Micah 3:9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.