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Crooked

הֲפַכְפַּךְStrong’s H2019

haphakhpakh (ha-phakh-pakh)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Haphakhpakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “crooked”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.”
Proverbs 21:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Crooked, perverted
How it's translated
  • crooked 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Proverbs 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    הֲפַכְפַּךְ haphakhpakh · crooked

    crooked, perverted

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “crooked” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    CROOKED, participle passive

    or adjective

    1. Bent; curved; curving; winding.
    2. Winding in moral conduct; devious; froward; perverse; going out of the path of rectitude; given to obliquity or wandering from duty.“They are a perverse and crooked generation” Deuteronomy 32:5

    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.