Twisted
פְּתַלְתֹּלStrong’s H6618petaltol (pe-tal-tol)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Petaltol is the Hebrew word usually translated “crooked”. It appears in 1 verse 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, tortuous
How it's translated
- and crooked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פְּתַלְתֹּל petaltol · twisted
twisted, tortuous
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.