Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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Perverteth
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Luke 23:14
Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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סָלַף
çâlaph · saw-laf'
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert
Strong's KJV usage: overthrow, pervert.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 23:8Strong's last: Proverbs 19:3
Open full H5557 profile →ἀποστρέφω
apostréphō · ap-os-tref'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to turn away or back (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bring again, pervert, turn away (from).
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Strong's first: Luke 23:14Strong's last: Luke 23:14
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nâṭâh · naw-taw'
1 times translated as this KJV form214 total Strong's occurrences
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 27:19Strong's last: Deuteronomy 27:19
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ʻâqash · aw-kash'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to knot or distort; figuratively, to pervert (act or declare perverse)
Strong's KJV usage: make crooked, (prove, that is) perverse(-rt).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 10:9Strong's last: Proverbs 10:9
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H6140
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
H5557
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
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pervert
PERVERT', verb transitive [Latin perverto; per and verto, to turn.]
1. To turn from truth, propriety, or from its proper purpose; to distort from its true use or end; as, to pervert reason by misdirecting it; to pervert the laws by misinterpreting and misapplying them; to pervert justice; to pervert the meaning of an author; to pervert nature; to pervert truth.
2. To turn from the right; to corrupt.
He in the serpent had perverted Eve.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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