18 occurrences

'Crooked' in the Bible

They [have] behaved corruptly toward him; [they are] not his children; [this is] their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedEvil GenerationsCrookednessIsrael As Sons Of GodTwisted Ways

With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

Verse ConceptsTwisted WaysGod Is PureGood Rebounding

And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow.

Verse ConceptsFaultsBow And Arrows, Illustrations OfUnreliabilityTwistingUseless PeopleFalling Away From God

But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace [be] upon Israel.

Verse ConceptsBacksliding, CausesBanishmentCrookednessEvildoersTwisted Ways

All sayings of my mouth [are] in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked.

Verse ConceptsTwisted Ways

He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedProverbsSpeech, Negative Aspects OfTonguePerversionTwisted Ways

Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedDeviousnessTwisted WaysPure People

He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one.

Verse ConceptsSafetyCrookednessTwisted WaysDownfallSudden Death

Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked?

Verse ConceptsTwistingStraightening

They do not know [the] way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks} in it knows no peace.

Verse ConceptsWay, TheCrookednessPaths Of The WickedPathways Of SinSpiritual IgnoranceUnrestTwistingNo PeacePaths

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be leveled, and the crooked will become straight, and the rough road [will become] smooth,

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesMountains RemovedTwisted WaysStraighteningSmoothnessPutting Things DownSmoothPaths

[and] said, "O [you who are] full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, [you] son of the devil, [you] enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!

Verse ConceptsSatan, Agents OfShrewdnessDenunciationsMischiefChildren Of EvilTwistingStraight PathsMen DeceivingChildren Of The DevilEnemies Of GodDemonic Influence

Bible Theasaurus

Angular (3 instances)
Corrupt (70 instances)
Crooked (38 instances)
Cunning (54 instances)
Curve (1 instance)
Hunched (1 instance)
Indirect (1 instance)
Stooped (16 instances)
Stooping (6 instances)

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בּרח בּריח 
Bariyach 
Usage: 3

גּבּן 
Gibben 
Usage: 1

הדר 
Hadar 
Usage: 7

מעקשׁ 
Ma`aqash 
Usage: 1

עוה 
`avah 
Usage: 17

עות 
`avath 
Usage: 11

עקב 
`aqob 
Usage: 3

עקלּתון 
`aqallathown 
Usage: 1

עקשׁ 
`aqash 
Usage: 5

עקּשׁ 
`iqqesh 
Usage: 11

פּתלתּל 
P@thaltol 
Usage: 1

σκολιός 
Skolios 
Usage: 4