Crooked
עֲקַלְקַלStrong’s H6128aqalqal (a-qal-qal)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aqalqal is the Hebrew word usually translated “twisting” and “twisting their”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.”
Meaning
- Winding, devious, crooked
How it's translated
- twisting 1
- twisting their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֲקַלְקַל aqalqal · crooked
winding, devious, crooked
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.