Strong's #6140: `aqash (pronounced aw-kash')

a primitive root; to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse):--make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛âqash

1) to be perverse, twist, pervert, make crooked, Proverbs perverse, declare perverse

1a) (Niphal) to be crooked

1b) (Piel) to twist, distort, pervert, make crooked

1c) (Hiphil) to declare crooked

1d) (Qal) perverse

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Job 9:20: "shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse."
Proverbs 10:9: "uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known."
Proverbs 28:18: "Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once."
Isaiah 59:8: "and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not"
Micah 3:9: "of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity."