The corpus record — Hebrew

עִקֵּ֖שׁ

iqqesh

qrb(w)t: Nu 344 Jos 153 Ju 136. T 0%ק6(א)א\

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Distribution

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 11 · 0.36/10k

Senses

1. עקש

qrb(w)t: Nu 344 Jos 153 Ju 136. T 0%ק6(א)א\

2. עִקֵּשׁ

twisted, perverted

3. עִקֵּשׁ

distorted; hence, false

4. עקש

to twist, make crooked, pervert

Attestations

עִקֵּ֖שׁ Deuteronomy 32:5 (BHS)
עִקֵּ֖שׁ 2 Samuel 22:27 (BHS)
עִ֝קֵּ֗שׁ Psalms 18:27 (BHS)
עִ֭קֵּשׁ Psalms 101:4 (BHS)
עִקְּשִׁ֑ים Proverbs 2:15 (BHS)
וְ/עִקֵּֽשׁ Proverbs 8:8 (BHS)

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Koehler-Baumgartner, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) scan p. 521; entry #2254 Review: Under source audit
Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (Carta 1987) scan p. 196; entry #4275 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.