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עֲקַלְקַל

ʻăqalqal · H6128 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. byway

    Literally: bent (road); hence: a minor road, that usually winds its way through the landscape and is less travelled; regarded as more safe than the main road

    Examples

    Judges 5:6 “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the roads were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways.

  2. crooked ways

    Literally: bent (ways); hence: state in which someone's actions do not meet the general standard and therefore unacceptable

    Examples

    Psalm 125:5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with those who practice injustice. Peace be upon Israel.

How it’s used In 2 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

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 word
עִקֵּשׁ ʻiqqêsh · H6141 · perverse, crooked
Both words denote crookedness and perversity, describing deviant or wrong paths and behavior.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Roads001003002007
עֲקַלְקַל denotes a byway or crooked path, a winding route distinguished from a straight road.
Wrong002001003019
The word carries the figurative sense of a crooked, morally wrong way of life alongside its literal sense of a winding path.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

עָקַל ʻâqal · H6127 · perverted · 1×עֲקַלְקַלʻăqalqal · H6128עֲקַלָּתוֹן ʻăqallâthôwn · H6129 · twisting, writhing · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6128. aqalqal [עֲקַלְקָל] adjective intensive crooked; — feminine plural עֲקַלְקַלּוֺת…
H6128. aqalqal
[עֲקַלְקָל] adjective intensive crooked; — feminine plural עֲקַלְקַלּוֺת אֳרָחוֺת Jdg 5:6 i.e. roundabout paths (GFM); suffix עֲקַלִקַלּוֺתָם Psa 125:5 their crooked-nesses.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Roads1 occurrenceWrong1 occurrence

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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