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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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Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 59:8 · retained source text

The way of peace they know not, and there is no iudgement in their goings: they haue made them crooked pathes; whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not know peace.

1611 marginal noteOr, right.

Luke 3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
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1611 witness · Luke 3:5 · retained source text

Euery valley shall be filled, and euery mountaine and hill shalbe brought low, and the crooked shall bee made straight, and the rough wayes shall be made smooth.

Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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1611 witness · Philippians 2:15 · retained source text

That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and peruerse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world:

1611 marginal noteOr, syncere.

1611 marginal noteOr, shine ye

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