- Original: עקשׁ - Transliteration: `aqash - Phonetic: aw-kash' - Definition: 1. to be perverse, twist, pervert, make crooked, prove perverse, declare perverse a. (Niphal) to be crooked b. (Piel) to twist, distort, pervert, make crooked c. (Hiphil) to declare crooked d. (Qal) perverse - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1684 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to knot or distort; figuratively to pervert (act or declare perverse): - make crooked (prove that is) perverse (-rt). Total KJV Occurrences: 5 • crooked, 1 Isaiah 59:8 • perverse, 2 Job 9:20; Proverbs 28:18 • pervert, 1 Micah 3:9 • perverteth, 1 Proverbs 10:9