Strong's #3868: luwz (pronounced looz)

a primitive root; to turn aside (compare 3867, 3874 and 3885), i.e. (literally) to depart, (figuratively) be perverse:--depart, froward, perverse(-ness).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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lûz

1) to depart, turn aside

1a) (Qal) to depart

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to go wrong, go crooked

1b2) devious, perverse (participle)

1c) (Hiphil)

1c1) to be lost from view

1c2) to become devious

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Proverbs 2:15: "Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:"
Proverbs 3:21: "My son, let not them depart keep sound wisdom and discretion:"
Proverbs 3:32: "For the froward is abomination but his secret is with the righteous."
Proverbs 4:21: "Let them not depart from thine eyes; them in the midst of thine heart."
Proverbs 14:2: "in his uprightness feareth but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth"
Isaiah 30:12: "word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:"