Twisted
עִקֵּשׁStrong’s H6141iqqesh (iq-qesh)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Iqqesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “perverse”, “twisted” and “distorted”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.”
Meaning
- Twisted, distorted, crooked, perverse, perverted
How it's translated
- a perverse 3
- perverse 2
- twisted 1
- and a distorted 1
- perverse of 1
- twisted of 1
- more than perverse of 1
- more than perverse 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 7
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:27With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
- Psalms 18:26With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
- Psalms 101:4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
- Proverbs 2:15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- Proverbs 8:8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
- Proverbs 11:20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
Hebrew dictionary
עִקֵּשׁ iqqesh · twisted
twisted, distorted, crooked, perverse, perverted
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “twisted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TWIST'ED, participle passive
Formed by winding threads or strands round each other.
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.