Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
crooked place
Usage: crooked place, twisted, crooked things
Maaqash means “crooked thing” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4625 — skandalon (“offence”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4625 מַעֲקָשׁ (ma`aqash) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ma`aqash (mah-ak-awsh') n-m. 1. a crook (in a road) [from H6140] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include crooked. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ma`aqash (mah-ak-awsh') n-m. 1. a crook (in a road) [from H6140] KJV: crooked thing. Root(s): H6140
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4625. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
crooked place
Usage: crooked place, twisted, crooked things
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ma`aqash, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H4625.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4625, grouped by book.
Maaqash (Strong's H4625) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "crooked thing". ma`aqash (mah-ak-awsh') n-m. 1. a crook (in a road) [from H6140]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H4625 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4625 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as crooked. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.