סֶלֶף
çeleph · H5558 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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perverseness, crookedness, deviousness
State in which humans lack integrity in everything they think or do
ExamplesProverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the perversity of the treacherous will destroy them.
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perverseness, crookedness, deviousness
State in which an event is considered morally and/or ethically unacceptable
ExamplesProverbs 15:4 A soothing tongue is a tree of life, But perversion in it crushes the spirit.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּגַדto act unfaithfully 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁדַדto devastate, to destroy 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֶׁבֶרdestruction, fracture 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- תַּהְפֻּכָה tahpukâh · H8419 · perversion, perverted
- סֶלֶף (çeleph, H5558) and תַּהְפּוּכָה both denote moral perversity or crookedness, describing twisted or perverted behavior or character.
- עַוָּתָה ʻavvâthâh · H5792 · wrong (committed by one human to another)
- The target lexeme (‘perverseness’) and עַוָּתָה (‘wrong’) both denote moral deviation, and are plausible near-synonyms describing wrongdoing or injustice.
- עִקְּשׁוּת ʻiqqᵉshûwth · H6143 · crookedness
- סֶלֶף (çeleph, H5558) and עִקְּשׁוּת both denote moral crookedness or perversity.
- עֶוֶל ʻevel · H5766 · wrong, injustice, iniquity
- Both words denote moral wrongness or deviation, and "perverseness" appears among the renderings of both, describing moral crookedness.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Evil002001002007
- The abstract noun for perverseness or moral crookedness, contrasted with integrity as the trait that destroys the treacherous and crushes the spirit.
- Wrong002001003019
- The same noun viewed as a wrong or corrupt deviation from what is right, sharing the same two citations as its Evil sense above.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5558. seleph סֶ֫לֶף noun masculinePro 11:3 Qr crookedness, crooked dealing: — ׳ס…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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