עִקֵּשׁ
ikesh · crooked
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6141 · appears 11 times in the Bible
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ikesh (עִקֵּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crooked”.
Not going straight.
How to say it
i·kesh
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
- Bent, not living uprightly.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:5
They have acted corruptly toward him; they are not his children, because of their defect, a crooked and twisted generation.
- 2 Samuel 22:27
with the clean you show yourself clean, and with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
- Psalms 18:26
with the clean you show yourself clean, and with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
- Psalms 101:4
A crooked heart will depart from me; evil I will not know.
- Proverbs 2:15
whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their tracks;
- Proverbs 8:8
In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth; there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.
- Proverbs 11:20
An abomination to YHWH are the crooked of heart, but the blameless in their way are his pleasure.
- Proverbs 17:20
One crooked of heart will not find good, and one perverse in his tongue will fall into evil.
- Proverbs 19:1
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one crooked in his lips, who is senseless.
- Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.
- Proverbs 28:6
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than one crooked in two ways, even though he is rich.