סֶלֶף
selef · crookedness, perversity
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5558 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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selef (סֶלֶף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crookedness, perversity”.
What twists what is straight.
How to say it
se·lef
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A twisted way of acting.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
- Proverbs 15:4
A calm tongue is a tree of life, but crookedness in it is a breaking of the spirit.