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crooked

Meaning of “crooked”

1. Bent, winding, or not straight. 2. Figuratively, morally perverse or turned aside from what is right.

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14 occurrences14 verses9 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Deuteronomy 32:5

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Deuteronomy 32:5
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Deuteronomy 32:5 · retained source text

They haue corrupted themselues, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a peruerse and crooked generation.

1611 marginal noteHebr. he hath corrupted to himselfe.

1611 marginal noteOr, that they are not his children, that is their blot.

Job 26:13
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 26:13 · retained source text

By his spirit he hath garnished the heauens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 125:5 · retained source text

As for such as turne aside vnto their crooked wayes, the LORD shall lead them foorth with the workers of iniquitie: but peace shalbe vpon Israel.

Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
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1611 witness · Proverbs 2:15 · retained source text

Whose wayes are crooked, and they froward in their pathes.

Ecclesiastes 1:15
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 1:15 · retained source text

That which is crooked, cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbred.

1611 marginal noteHeb. defect.

1611 marginal noteCha.7.13.

Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 7:13 · retained source text

Consider the worke of God: for who can make that straight, which hee hath made crooked?

1611 marginal noteChap. 1.15.

Isaiah 27:1
IN that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 27:1 · retained source text

¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sworde shall punish Leuiathan the piercing serpent, euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent, and hee shall slay the dragon that is in the Sea.

1611 marginal noteOr, crossing like a barre.

Isaiah 40:4
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
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1611 witness · Isaiah 40:4 · retained source text

Euery valley shalbe exalted, and euery mountaine and hill shalbe made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plaine.

1611 marginal noteOr, a straight place.

1611 marginal noteOr, a plaine place.

Isaiah 42:16
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 42:16 · retained source text

And I will bring the blinde by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in pathes that they haue not knowen: I wil make darkenesse light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. into straightnes.

Isaiah 45:2
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
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1611 witness · Isaiah 45:2 · retained source text

I will goe before thee, and make the crooked places straight, I wil break in pieces the gates of brasse, and cut in sunder the barres of yron.

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