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the opposite, contrary, perversity
This noun denotes the opposite or contrary, or perversity—a complete reversal of the expected. Ezekiel 16:34 uses it twice in God's accusation against Jerusalem for her spiritual prostitution: 'The opposite occurred in you from other women...you became the opposite.' Instead of being paid, she paid her lovers—a perverse inversion of normal prostitution. Isaiah 29:16 employs it as an exclamation: 'Oh, your perversity!'—condemning Israel's backwards thinking that treats the potter as clay. Both uses emphasize radical reversal or distortion.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The glosses ('opposite, contrary, contrario, perversity') emphasize reversal. Ezekiel 16:34 repeats the word: Jerusalem is 'the opposite of [other] women' and 'you became the opposite'—she reversed normal prostitution by paying instead of being paid, illustrating her perverse eagerness for idolatry. Isaiah 29:16 cries 'your perversity!'—denouncing those who reverse creator and creature, treating God as their product rather than themselves as his. Both passages use the word to condemn fundamental inversions of proper order. 2×
AR["عَكْسًا", "عَكْسٌ"]·ben["বিপরীত", "বিপরীত।"]·DE["[הפך]", "[להפך]"]·EN["for-opposite", "opposite"]·FR["contraire"]·heb["הפך", "ל-הפך"]·HI["उलटा", "उलटी"]·ID["kebalikan", "kebalikan.'"]·IT["[הפך]", "[להפך]"]·jav["kosokwangsul"]·KO["반대가", "반대로"]·PT["como-inversão", "inversão"]·RU["наоборот"]·ES["al-contrario", "contrario"]·SW["kinyume"]·TR["tersine", "terslik"]·urd["الٹا", "الٹی"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† הֶ֫פֶךְ n.m. the contrary, contrariness, perversity;—abs. ה׳ Ez 16:34; הֶ֑פֶךְ v 34; sf. הַפְכְּכֶם Is 29:16 (v. Baer);— 1. the contrary, opposite thing וַיְהִי־בָךְ הֶפֶךְ מִן־הַנָּשִׁים Ez 16:34 & there hath occurred in thee the contrary from other women; v 34 וַתְּהִי לְהֶ֑פֶךְ so thou hast become the contrary. 2. הַפְכְּכֶם Is 29:16 Oh, your perversity!