H3868

לוּז

luzH:V

be devious

1) to depart, turn aside 1a) (Qal) to depart 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to go wrong, go crooked 1b2) devious, perverse (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to be lost from view 1c2) to become devious

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[לוּז] verb (in poetry, mostly Wisdom Literature) turn aside, depart (Late Hebrew Niph`al, Hiph`il; Arabic have recourse to, take refuge in); —

Qal Imperfect מֵעֵינֶ֑יךָ אַליָֿלֻזוּ Prov 3:21 let them not (i.e. sound wisdom, etc., si vera 1., compare VB) depart from thine eyes (see Hiph`il). Niph`al Participle נָלוֺז Prov 3:32; Isa 30:12 construct נְלוֺז Prov 14:2 pluralנְלוֺזִים Prov 2:15 — figurative, devious, crooked, בְּמַעְגְּלֹתָם ׳נ Prov 2:15 ׅ || (עִקְּשִׁים; דְּרָכָיו ׳נ Prov 14:2 as substantive of person Prov 3:32 of course of action Isa 30:12 ׅ || (עשֶׁק, i.e. crookedness = craftiness, cunning, compare De Che Di. Hiph`il Imperfect אַליַֿלִּיזוּ מֵעֵינֶיךָ Prov 4:21 (subject דְּבָרַי let them [my words] not depart (on form see Ges^{«GKC:72»§ 72} R. 9) from thine eyes (strictly, let them not practise, exhibit, deviation, direct causative, Kö^{i. 205}).

6 occurrences

Proverbs (5), Isaiah (1)