Perversity
הֹפֶךְStrong’s H2017hophekh (ho-phekh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Hophekh is the Hebrew word usually translated “perversity your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?”
Meaning
- (Qal) perverseness, perversity
How it's translated
- perversity your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
הֹפֶךְ hophekh · perversity
(Qal) perverseness, perversity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perversity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERVERS'ITY, noun
Perverseness; crossness; disposition to thwart or cross.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.