Perversity
תַּהְפֻּכָהStrong’s H8419tahpukhah (tah-pu-khah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tahpukhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “perverse things”, “perversities” and “perversiti”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.”
Meaning
- Perversity, perverse thing
How it's translated
- perverse things 4
- perversities 4
- perversiti 1
- in perverse things of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 9
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 2:12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
- Proverbs 2:14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
- Proverbs 6:14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
- Proverbs 10:32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּהְפֻּכָה tahpukhah · perversity
perversity, perverse thing
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perversity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERVERS'ITY, noun
Perverseness; crossness; disposition to thwart or cross.
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.