This adjective appears in Proverbs 21:8's contrast between the guilty and the pure: 'Crooked is the way of a guilty man.' However, textual critics suspect dittography—accidental repetition creating וָזָר from an original pair וְזַךְ ('and pure'). If the text is sound, the word denotes moral guilt or criminality, contrasting with uprightness. Spanish and English preserve 'guilty,' 'culpable,' while French and German bracket the term, signaling doubt.