Quick Definition
crooked
Strong's Definition
winding
Derivation: from H6127 (עָקַל);
KJV Usage: by(-way), crooked way.
TWOT Reference: 1680a
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) winding, devious, crooked
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עֲקַלְקַל (a.qal.qal) — crooked. winding, devious, crooked
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
adj · עקל
Roads
byway literally: bent (road); hence: = a minor road, that usually winds its way through the landscape and is less travelled; ≈ regarded as more safe than the main road
Wrong
crooked ways literally: bent (ways); hence: = state in which someone's actions do not meet the general standard and therefore unacceptable
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עֲקַלְקָל] adj.intens. crooked base