Strong's Greek · G4646

σκολιός

skoliós

crooked, froward, untoward

Definition

warped, i.e. winding; figuratively, perverse

Derivation

from the base of G4628 (σκέλος);

Appears 4 times in Scripture

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Acts 2:40

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

1 Peter 2:18

Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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