Crooked
עֲקַלָּתוֹןStrong’s H6129aqallaton (a-qal-la-ton)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Aqallaton is the Hebrew word usually translated “twisting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”
Meaning
- Crooked
How it's translated
- twisting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עֲקַלָּתוֹן aqallaton · crooked
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.