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froward perverse, turned away
The opposite of "toward": a froward person has turned away. Proverbs uses it constantly for crooked speech and crooked paths.
Means: perverse, turned awayIn the KJV: 25 timesNo longer in ordinary English
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All 24 verses.
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Common questions
What does "froward" mean in the Bible?
In the King James Version froward means perverse, turned away. The opposite of "toward": a froward person has turned away. Proverbs uses it constantly for crooked speech and crooked paths.
How many times does "froward" appear in the King James Version?
25 times, counting its other forms (froward 21 times, frowardness 3 times, frowardly 1 time).
What Hebrew word is behind "froward"?
Most often תַּהְפֻּכָה (tahpukâh), Strong's H8419, meaning a perversity or fraud.
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