עָקַל
to bend
‘to bend’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
Form
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6127 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Habakkuk 1 verse
About this entry
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עקל (ʻâqal) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to bend.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Habakkuk dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. It occurs only once, in Habakkuk 1:4. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6127 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Habakkuk 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Therefore wrong 1×
- American Standard Version: Perverted 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Perverted 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Perverted 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6127 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6127 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6127 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to bend, twist
- (Pual) to be bent out of shape, be distorted, be crooked
Word origin
[ עָקַל ] vb. bend, twist;— Pu. Hb 1:4 crooked justice.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָקַל
- to be curved, round, twisted.
- to curve. Part. pass. מְעוּקָּל. Sifré Deut. 308; Yalk. ib. 942 מקל מע׳ a crooked staff.
עֲקַל
- Pa. עַקֵּל same, to curve, v. עֲקַם.
עֵקֶל
- ) m. (preced.)
- 1. a bale of loose texture containing the olive pulp to be pressed. Maasr. I, 7; Tosef. ib. I, 7 (Var. עוקל). Toh. X, 8; Y. Ab. Zar. V, end, 45ᵇ הע׳ של נצרים, v. infra. Sabb. 144ᵇ מוחל היוצא מע׳ בית הבד Ar. (ed. מעיקול) the watery fluid which oozes out of the bale made up for the press; (Tosef. Toh. X, 3 מעיקת; R. S. to Toh. IX, 1 מן שוקת, corr. acc.). Tosef. l. c. כינסו ועשאו עיקל (R. S. l. c. שוקת) if he collected the fluid and put it back into the bale. Snh. 26ᵃ יכול לומר לע׳ בית הבד וכ׳ he (who trims vines in the Sabbatical year) may say, I need the twigs to make a bale for the press. Ib. (proverbial expression) הלב יודע אם לע׳ אם לעקלקלות the heart knows whether it is done for ʿekel (a legitimate purpose) or out of ‘ãḳalḳaloth (perverseness); Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵃ; Lam. R. to I, 5; a. e.—Pl. עֲקָלִים, עֲקָלִין (or עִקָּ׳). Y. Shebi. l. c. (in Chald. dict.) לע׳ אנא בעי I need the twigs for &c., v. supra. Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ; Tosef. ib. VIII (IX), 3 הע׳ של נצרין וכ׳ bales made of wicker or hemp &c.; Tosef. Toh. XI, 16 הע׳ של נוצרין. Ex. R. s. 15 ע׳ של זיתים olive pulp.
- 2. (from its shape) a mass of iron used for ballast. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. I, 1. Makhsh. V, 7 המים העולים … ובע׳ וכ׳ (ed. Dehr. ובעיקל) water that comes up (and settles) in the hull, on the ballast or on the rudders; [Maim.: in the cavity in the hull made for the reception of drippings from the deck; cmp. עוּקָה].
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6127, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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