Crookedness
סֶ֫לֶףStrong’s H5558seleph (se-leph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seleph is the Hebrew word usually translated “crookedness of” and “perverseness”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.”
Meaning
- Crookedness, perverseness, crooked dealing
How it's translated
- and crookedness of 1
- and perverseness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
סֶ֫לֶף seleph · crookedness
crookedness, perverseness, crooked dealing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crookedness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CROOKEDNESS, noun
- A winding, bending or turning; curvity; curvature; inflection.
- Perverseness; untowardness; deviation from rectitude; iniquity; obliquity of conduct.
- Deformity of a gibbous body.
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.