עָקַשׁ ʻâqash — to knot or distort
Translated in the KJV as make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse.
a primitive root; to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse).
ʻâqash in each stem
Pi'el
Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
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.
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 1
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Niph'al
Participle (passive) 1
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›