ʻâqash — H6140

Definition

verb

to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse)

1. to be perverse, twist, pervert, make crooked, prove perverse, declare perverse
1. (Niphal) to be crooked
2. (Piel) to twist, distort, pervert, make crooked
3. (Hiphil) to declare crooked
4. (Qal) perverse

Usually translated as

perverse, make crooked, pervert

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• diastréphō (G1294)
• skoliós (G4646)

Occurrences

ʻâqash occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (1), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (1), Micah (1)

• Job 9:20 — If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse (וַֽיַּעְקְשֵֽׁנִי).
• Proverbs 10:9 — He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth (וּמְעַקֵּ֥שׁ) his ways shall be known.
• Proverbs 28:18 — Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse (וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁ) in his ways shall fall at once.
• Isaiah 59:8 — The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked (עִקְּשׁ֣וּ) paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
• Micah 3:9 — Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert (יְעַקֵּֽשׁוּ) all equity.