Be devious
לוּזStrong’s H3868luz
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Luz is the Hebrew word usually translated “crooked”, “depart” and “let them depart”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:”
Meaning
- To depart, turn aside(Qal) to depart · (Niphal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and crooked 1
- they depart 1
- a crooked 1
- let them depart 1
- and is crooked of 1
- and a crooked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 5
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 3:21My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
- Proverbs 3:32For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
- Proverbs 4:21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
- Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
- Isaiah 30:12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Hebrew dictionary
לוּז luz · be devious
1) to depart, turn aside 1a) (Qal) to depart 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to go wrong, go crooked 1b2) devious, perverse (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to be lost from view 1c2) to become devious
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
- Bent; curved; curving; winding.
- 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.