King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H6140
Transliteration: aqash
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-kash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to twist
Meaning: to knot, distort, to pervert
Word Summary
aqash: to twist
Original Word: עָקַשׁTransliteration: aqash
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-kash')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to twist
Meaning: to knot, distort, to pervert
Strong's Concordance
make crooked, prove, that is perverse A primitive root; to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse) -- make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H6140. aqash
[עָקַשׁ] verb twist (Late Hebrew id. (rare)); —
Niph`al Participle construct דְּרָכַיִם Proverbs 28:18 one crooked in ways (< plural, compare Toy).
Pi`el Perfect3plural לָהֶם עִקְּשׁז Isaiah 59:8 their paths they have twisted. Imperfect3masculine plural יְעַקֵּ֑שׁזּ Micah 3:9 all that is straight they make crooked; Participle דְּרָכָיו מְעַקֵּשׁ Proverbs 10:9 (compare Niph`al).
Hiph`il Imperfect וַיּעְקְשֵׁנִי Job 9:20 (Ges§ 53n) he hath declared me crooked, devious (in life).