עָקַל

«עָקַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: bend — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

Used: 1 times · Key: 6127 · BDB: עָקַל

Glosses

perverted (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

bend tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. bend, twist tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. bend, twist (NH especially in deriv.; 𝔗 in deriv.; Syriac ܥܩܠ twist, in der. spec.; Arabic عَقَلَ bind camel’s folded fore-shank and arm together);— be bent out of shape, crooked, Pt. fig. מִשְׁפָּט מְעֻקָּל Hb 1:4 crooked justice.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «עָקַל» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Habakkuk 1:4

עַל־כֵּן֙ תָּפ֣וּג תּוֹרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יֵצֵ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֤י רָשָׁע֙ מַכְתִּ֣יר אֶת־הַצַּדִּ֔יק עַל־כֵּ֛ן יֵצֵ֥א מִשְׁפָּ֖ט מְעֻקָּֽל׃

Word for word: therefore it.grows.numb [the].law and not it.comes.forth to perpetuity justice (dm) [the].wicked [is].surrounding (et) the.righteous [person] therefore it.comes.forth justice perverted

JPS 1917: Therefore the law is slacked, and right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth forth perverted.

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