Lexical Summary aqash: to twist Original Word: עָקַשׁTransliteration: 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 דְּרָכַיִם Proverbs 28:18 one crooked in ways (< plural, compare Toy). Pi`el Perfect3plural לָהֶם עִקְּשׁז Isaiah 59:8 their paths they have twisted. Imperfect3masculine plural יְעַקֵּ֑שׁזּ Micah 3:9 all that is straight they make crooked; Participle דְּרָכָיו מְעַקֵּשׁ Proverbs 10:9 (compare Niph`al). Hiph`il Imperfect וַיּעְקְשֵׁנִי Job 9:20 (Ges§ 53n) he hath declared me crooked, devious (in life). |