# עָקַשׁ (aqash)

Israeli respelling: a-qash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6140. 5 Old Testament occurrences.

to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse)

King James renderings: make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/aqash-h6140

## Occurrences

- [Job 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/20) — If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
- [Proverbs 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/9) — He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
- [Proverbs 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/18) — Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
- [Isaiah 59:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/8) — The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall…
- [Micah 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/9) — Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.