# H6140 עָקַשׁ

עָקַשׁ (ʻâqash), Strong’s H6140: to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse) KJV: make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).. Occurs 5 times.

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

KJV: make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָקַשׁ] vb. twist
- Niph. one crooked in ways
- Pi. their paths they have twisted. all that is straight they make crooked
- Hiph. he hath declared me crooked, devious (in life)

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 59:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=8) — They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves…
- [Micah 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/micah/3?v=9) — Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and…
- [Proverbs 10:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/10?v=9) — He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
- [Proverbs 28:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/28?v=18) — Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
- [Job 9:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/9?v=20) — Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.