1. crooked, perverse (adjective) — Adjective describing moral crookedness, perversity, or distortion of character, used of persons, speech, or ways. All seven sense clusters represent the same adjectival meaning with purely morphological variation (singular/plural, construct/absolute, with prepositions or conjunctions). Spanish consistently 'perverso/torcidos/torcido,' Hindi 'tedhe/tedhi/tedha/aur kutil,' Arabic 'al-multawi/mu'wajj/a'waj,' Korean 'bittungeo-jin/gupeun/bittuleojin,' Swahili 'mpotovu/zimepotoka/kilichopotoka.' No semantic differentiation exists across these forms; the variation is entirely grammatical. 11×
AR["أَعوَج","الأَعْوَجِ","الْمُلْتَوِي","مُعْوَجٌّ","مُعْوَجَّةٌ","مُعْوَجُّ-","مُعْوَجّو-","مِن-مُعْوَجِّ","مِنْ-مُعْوَجِ","وَ-مُعْوَجٌ"]·ben["-বাঁকার-চেয়ে","এবং-বাঁকা","কুটিল","বক্র","বক্রের","বক্রের-চেয়ে","বাঁকা","বাঁকা-","বিকৃত"]·DE["[ועקש]","[מעקש]","[עקש]","[עקשי]","[עקשים]","crooked","der-crooked","krumm","perverse"]·EN["are-crooked","are-the-crooked-of","crooked","crooked-of","or-crooked","perverse","than-crooked-of","than-one-crooked-of","the-crooked"]·FR["crooked","de-pervers","et-pervers","pervers"]·heb["ו-עיקש","מ-עיקש","עיקש","עיקש־","עיקשי־","עקומים"]·HI["और-कुटिल","टेढ़ा","टेढ़ी","टेढ़े","टेढ़े-के","टेढ़े-से"]·ID["Yang-bengkok","atau-sesat","bengkok","daripada-yang-bengkok","daripada-yang-sesat","orang-orang-yang-bengkok-","yang-bengkok","yang-berliku"]·IT["crooked","crooked-di","da-than-crooked-di","da-than-one-crooked-di","e-o-crooked","il-crooked","perverso","sono-crooked","sono-il-crooked-di","storto"]·jav["bengkong","ingkang-bengkong","lan-mlèncèng","tinimbang-tiyang-bengkong","tiyang-bengkong","tiyang-ingkang-culika"]·KO["굴어지고","굼은-자-와","굽은","굽은-자-보다","그리고-비뜻어지는-것-이","보다-비뚤어진","비뚤어진-","비뚤어진-자-의","비뚱어진-자"]·PT["Perverso-de-","do-que-perverso-de","e-perverso","o-perverso","perversa","perverso","perversos-de","são-tortuosas"]·RU["и-извращённости.","извращённое","извращённые-","извращённый-","кривые,","лукавым","развращённого","развращённое","чем-извращённый","чем-развращённый"]·ES["Torcido-de","perversa","perverso","perversos-de","que-perverso-de","que-un-perverso","son-torcidos","y-perverso"]·SW["au-upotovu","kilichopotoka","kuliko-mpotovu","kuliko-mwenye-kupotoka","mpotovu","mpotovu-wa","wenye-upotovu-wa","ya-mpotovu","zimepotoka"]·TR["eğri","eğri-","eğriden-","eğrileri-","eğrinin","sapkın","sapık","ve-sapık","çarpık"]·urd["اور-کجرو","سے-ٹیڑھے-چلنے-والے","ٹیڑھا","ٹیڑھا-","ٹیڑھی","ٹیڑھے","ٹیڑھے-سے","ٹیڑھے-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. עִקֵּשׁ adj. twisted, perverted;—abs. דּוֹד ע׳ וּפְתַלְתֹּל Dt 32:5 a generation twisted and crooked, לֵבָב ע׳ ψ 101:4; as n.m. (of one devious in life) the perverted 2 S 22:27 = ψ 18:27, Pr 22:5, of things 8:8; cstr. ע׳ דְּרָכַיִם 28:6, ע׳ שְׂפָתָיו 19:1, עִקֶּשׁ־לֵב 17:20; pl. אָרְחֹתֵיהֶם עִקְּשִׁים 2:15 whose ways are twisted; cstr. עִקְּשֵׁי־לֵב 11:20.