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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous path.

2. (a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

3. (a.) Injurious: tortuous.

4. (a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Greek

4646. skolios -- curved, winding, hence crooked
... Transliteration: skolios Phonetic Spelling: (skol-ee-os') Short Definition: crooked,
perverse, unfair Definition: crooked, perverse, unfair, curved, tortuous. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6618. pethaltol -- tortuous
... tortuous. Transliteration: pethaltol Phonetic Spelling: (peth-al-tole') Short
Definition: crooked. ... crooked. From pathal; tortuous (ie Crafty) -- crooked. ...
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6130. Aqan -- a descendant of Esau
... of Esau NASB Word Usage Akan (1). Akan. From an unused root meaning to twist; tortuous;
Akan, an Idummaean -- Akan. Compare Ya'aqan. see HEBREW Ya'aqan. ...
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6617. pathal -- to twist
... A primitive root; to twine, ie (literally) to struggle or (figuratively) be (morally)
tortuous -- (shew self) froward, shew self unsavoury, wrestle. ...
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6129. aqallathon -- crooked
... Word Origin from aqal Definition crooked NASB Word Usage twisted (1). crooked. From
aqal; tortuous -- crooked. see HEBREW aqal. 6128, 6129. aqallathon. 6130 ...
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Library

The Manichæans are Reduced to the Choice of a Tortuous, or Curved ...
... Fundamental. Chapter 26. "The Manichæans are Reduced to the Choice of
a Tortuous, or Curved, or Straight Line of Junction. The ...
/.../chapter 26 name manichaeans are.htm

The Tomb of the Pharaoh
... water. Here the steep ramparts were divided by a tortuous cleft, which
wound back with many cross-fissures deep into the desert. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxiii the tomb of.htm

An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality.
... the serpent with reference to its form and movements, which convey the abstract
idea of subtlety on the same principle that the words "tortuous" and "twisting ...
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The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in ...
... doctrine. These slippery snakes escape by their swift and tortuous windings,
if not strenuously pursued, and when caught, firmly held. ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 13 the unity of.htm

Twenty-Sixth Day. Guilelessness.
... school of the world (this "painted world"), how much is there of what is called
"policy," double-dealing!"accomplishing its ends by tortuous means; outward ...
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The Ten virgins.
... a lamp, and the many separate lights dancing and crossing each other, and changing
places as the bearers advance on the undulating and tortuous path, impart ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/xiii the ten virgins.htm

And Then that Further Device of Theirs, if Words Can Express It...
... who says this arm himself against Holy Scripture's most manifest proclamations,
with counsel of outrageous impiety, and persevere in a tortuous path, and essay ...
/.../augustine/of the work of monks /section 40 and then that.htm

Christian Behavior
... dark, dreary road to misery temporal and eternal: but it also displays the antidote;
an infallible remedy against all the subtilties of this tortuous disease. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/christian behavior.htm

Christ Undoes the Work of the Demiurge; Docetic Account of the ...
... We, however, merely see lids of vision, while corners (of the eye), a tissue which
is broad, tortuous, [922] (and) exceedingly fibrous, a membrane of the cornea ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter iii christ undoes the work.htm

And, that we May Show You More Clearly and Distinctly what is the ...
... [3541] Let there not be one door, nor a direct entrance, but let it be approached
by tortuous windings, and let it never be thrown open unless when it is ...
/.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/20 and that we may.htm

Thesaurus

Tortuous (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted;
winding; as, a tortuous path. ... 3. (a.) Injurious: tortuous. ...
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Torture (9 Occurrences)

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Tortoise (1 Occurrence)

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Nile (37 Occurrences)
... the headwaters of the Ragera River, a small stream on the other side of the lake,
3 degree South of the equator), and flows North in a tortuous channel, 1,400 ...
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Jordan (188 Occurrences)
... from 40 to 150 feet. Through it the Jordan flows in a rapid, rugged, tortuous
course down to the Dead Sea. The whole distance from ...
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Tigris (2 Occurrences)
... After pursuing a tortuous southeasterly course for 150 miles, it is joined by
the east branch at Osman Kieui, some distance below Diarbekr. ...
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Tikvath (1 Occurrence)
... After pursuing a tortuous southeasterly course for 150 miles, it is joined by
the east branch at Osman Kieui, some distance below Diarbekr. ...
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Tikvah (2 Occurrences)
... After pursuing a tortuous southeasterly course for 150 miles, it is joined by
the east branch at Osman Kieui, some distance below Diarbekr. ...
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Euphrates (36 Occurrences)
... After running respectively 400 and 270 miles in a westerly direction, they unite
near Keban Maaden, whence in a tortuous channel of about 300 miles, bearing ...
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Sycomore (3 Occurrences)
... The sycomore produces small, rounded figs, about an inch long, which grow upon tortuous,
leafless twigs springing from the trunk or the older branches; they ...
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Bible Concordance

Tortuous (1 Occurrence)

Proverbs 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
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Subtopics

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