Strong's #5557: calaph (pronounced saw-laf')

a primitive root; properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert:--overthrow, pervert.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâlaph

1) to twist, pervert, distort, overturn, ruin

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to pervert (of bribery)

1a2) to subvert, turn upside down, ruin

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Exodus 23:8: "the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous."
Deuteronomy 16:19: "doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous."
Job 12:19: "He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty."
Proverbs 13:6: "him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner."
Proverbs 19:3: "The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD."
Proverbs 21:12: "man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness."
Proverbs 22:12: "of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor."