STRONGS NUMBER H6140


Word Summary
aqash: to twist
Original Word: עָקַשׁ
Transliteration: 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 דְּרָכַיִםProverbs 28:18 one crooked in ways (< plural, compare Toy).

Pi`el Perfect3plural לָהֶם עִקְּשׁזIsaiah 59:8 their paths they have twisted. Imperfect3masculine plural יְעַקֵּ֑שׁזּMicah 3:9 all that is straight they make crooked; Participle דְּרָכָיו מְעַקֵּשׁProverbs 10:9 (compare Niph`al).

Hiph`il Imperfect וַיּעְקְשֵׁנִיJob 9:20 (Ges§ 53n) he hath declared me crooked, devious (in life).