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מַעֲקָשׁ

ma.a.qash

crooked place

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Strong’s H4625Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

rough places1

In the text

Isaiah 42:16וּמַעֲקַשִּׁים
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מַעֲקָשׁ] n.[m.] twisted, crooked place;—pl. Is 42:16

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.