עִקְּשׁוּת
ikshut · perversity
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6143 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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ikshut (עִקְּשׁוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “perversity”.
Crookedness; what is twisted and far from what is straight.
How to say it
ik·shut
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
- Crookedness, far from what is right.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Proverbs 4:24
Put away from you perversity of mouth, and deviousness of lips put far from you.
- Proverbs 6:12
A perverse person, a man of wickedness, goes about with perversity of mouth;