Crookedness
עִקְּשׁוּתStrong’s H6143iqqshut (iq-q-shut)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Iqqshut is the Hebrew word usually translated “crookedness of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.”
Meaning
- Distortion, crookedness
How it's translated
- crookedness of 2
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
עִקְּשׁוּת iqqshut · crookedness
distortion, crookedness
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.