Topic
Crooked
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 32:5ISBE
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
- Proverbs 2:15ISBE
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- Ecclesiastes 1:15ISBE
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13ISBE
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- Isaiah 27:1ISBE
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.
- Isaiah 42:16ISBE
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.
- Isaiah 45:2ISBE
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:
- Lamentations 3:9ISBE
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- Luke 3:5ISBE
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;
- Philippians 2:15ISBE
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;
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 10 references
krook'-ed (`awah, `aqash, `aqalqal, `aqallathon, pethaltol; skolios): Primarily designates something that is bent, twisted or deformed (Isa 27:1; 45:2 the King James Version).
Figurative:
(1) It designates a course of action that deviates from rectitude, especially deceit, guile, hypocrisy (De 32:5; Pr 2:15; Ec 1:15; Lu 3:5; compare Php 2:15);
(2) trials (sent by God, Ec 7:13; La 3:9);
(3) difficulties (removed by God, Isa 42:16).
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.