H6128 H6128
Winding, crooked, or circuitous; describing twisted paths or ways
This intensive adjective describes extreme crookedness. In Judges 5:6, it characterizes the roundabout paths travelers took to avoid danger during Israel's oppression. In Psalm 125:5, it refers metaphorically to 'their crooked ways'—the devious paths of those who turn aside from righteousness. The reduplicative form intensifies the basic idea of 'crooked,' suggesting something extremely twisted or convoluted, whether literal mountain paths or moral trajectories.
Senses
1. sense 1 — An intensive adjective meaning extremely winding or crooked. The multilingual glosses consistently reflect tortuous paths: 'caminos torcidos,' 'tortueux,' 'crooked-ways.' Judges describes physical detours taken for safety during lawless times. Psalms uses the term metaphorically for moral perversity. The intensive morphology (reduplicative root) emphasizes thoroughgoing crookedness—not slightly bent but extremely twisted, matching both the dangerous mountain paths and the devious character of the wicked. 2×
AR["إلى-مُعوَّجاتِهِم", "مُلْتَوِيَةً"]·ben["আঁকাবাঁকা", "আঁকাবাঁকা-পথে-তাদের,"]·DE["-winding", "zu-ihr-crooked-Wege"]·EN["-winding", "to-their-crooked-ways"]·FR["-winding", "tortueux"]·heb["עקלקלות", "עקלקלותם"]·HI["अपने-टेढ़े-मार्गों-को", "टेढ़े"]·ID["jalan-bengkok-mereka", "yang-berliku-liku"]·IT["-winding", "[עקלקלותם]"]·jav["dhateng-margi-bengkong-ipun", "ingkang-mèngkol-mèngkol"]·KO["굴절한", "그들-의-굽은-길들-로"]·PT["para-caminhos-tortuosos", "tortuosos"]·RU["на-кривые-пути-свои", "окольными"]·ES["caminos-torcidos-de-ellos", "torcidos"]·SW["njia-zao-zilizopotoka", "za-kupinda"]·TR["dolambalı", "eğriliklerine"]·urd["ٹیڑھی-راہوں-پر", "ٹیڑھی-میڑھی"]
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
† [עֲקַלְקָל] adj. intens. crooked;—fpl. אֳרָחוֹת עֲקַלְקַלּוֹת Ju 5:6 i.e. roundabout paths (GFM); sf. עֲקַלִקַלּוֹתָם ψ 125:5 their crookednesses.