Strong's #6617: pathal (pronounced paw-thal')

a primitive root; to twine, i.e. (literally) to struggle or (figuratively) be (morally) tortuous:--(shew self) froward, shew self unsavoury, wrestle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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pâthal

1) to twist

1a) (Niphal)

1a1) to be twisted

1a2) to wrestle

1b) (Hithpael) to be twisted

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 30:8: "said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed:"
2 Samuel 22:27: "thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself unsavory."
Job 5:13: "the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong."
Psalms 18:26: "thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward."
Proverbs 8:8: "of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse"