Perversion
מֻטֶּהStrong’s H4297mutteh (mut-teh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mutteh is the Hebrew word usually translated “perverseness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.”
Meaning
- A perversion, that which is perverted or warped, perverted
How it's translated
- perverseness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מֻטֶּה mutteh · perversion
a perversion, that which is perverted or warped, perverted
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perversion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERVER'SION, noun
[Latin perversus.]
The act of perverting; a turning from truth or propriety; a diverting from the true intent or object; change to something worse. We speak of the perversion of the laws, when they are misinterpreted or misapplied; a perversion of reason, when it is misemployed; a perversion of Scripture, when it is willfully misinterpreted or misapplied, etc.
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.