Quick Definition
to pervert
Strong's Definition
properly, to wrench, i.e. (figuratively) to subvert
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: overthrow, pervert.
TWOT Reference: 1510
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סָלַף (sa.laph) — to pervert. 1) to twist, pervert, distort, overturn, ruin 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to pervert (of bribery) 1a2) to subvert, turn upside down, ruin
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · סֶלֶף
Fail
to subvert, to undermine = action by which humans cause their own actions to be ineffective
Fail
to subvert, to undermine = causative action by which humans or deities or their actions cause other people's activities to be ineffective
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
סָלַף vb. twist, pervert, overturn Pi. pervert
subvert, turn upside down, ruin
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