Words the Bible translates as pervert
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- natahנָטָהto bend justice or pervert a legal case: to push a judgment off its honest course against the weak
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- to stretch out or spread something: to extend a hand, arm, or fabric into open space
- to turn aside or turn away: to change direction so as to leave the straight path, toward something or away from it
- to incline the ear or heart: to bend one's attention toward someone, or to bend another's heart a certain way
- haphakhהָפַךְto pervert or twist, turning what is straight and right into something crooked
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- to turn something over, around, or back, so a new side or heading faces out
- to overthrow and destroy, tearing a place down so completely that it is left upended in ruin
- to change one thing into its opposite, turning a state, condition, or substance into something else
- diastrephōδιαστρέφωto twist something out of true: to bend a straight path, a message, or a person away from where it ought to run
- avahעָוָהto bend, twist, or be bent over: to make something crooked or to be doubled over in the body
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- to do wrong, commit iniquity, act perversely: to do what is morally crooked
- avatעָוַתto bend something out of its straight shape, and so to twist a verdict, a scale, or a person's rightful claim
- salaphסָלַףto twist something so far that it goes over: to wrench honest words until a just case comes out crooked, or to upend people and leave them in ruin
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