Definition

to crook, literally or figuratively

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• do amiss
• bow down
• make crooked
• commit iniquity
• pervert
• (do) perverse(-ly)
• trouble
• turn
• do wickedly
• do wrong

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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