עָקַשׁ
akash · pervert
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6140 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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akash (עָקַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pervert”.
To twist; figuratively, to pervert, or to declare someone crooked.
How to say it
a·kash
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
- Bend what is straight; corrupt; declare someone guilty.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- he who makes crooked ×1
- he would declare me crooked ×1
- one crooked ×1
- they have made crooked ×1
- twist ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 9:20
Though I were righteous, my own mouth would declare me wicked; blameless I am, and he would declare me crooked.
- Proverbs 10:9
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes crooked his ways will be found out.
- Proverbs 28:18
Whoever walks blameless will be saved, but one crooked in two ways will fall in one of them.
- Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their tracks; their paths they have made crooked for themselves; everyone who walks on them does not know peace.
- Micah 3:9
Hear this, please, heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and twist all that is upright,