- Original: סלף - Transliteration: Calaph - Phonetic: saw-laf' - Definition: 1. to twist, pervert, distort, overturn, ruin a. (Piel) 1. to pervert (of bribery) 2. to subvert, turn upside down, ruin - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1510 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to wrench that is (figuratively) to subvert: - overthrow pervert. Total KJV Occurrences: 7 • overthroweth, 4 Job 12:19; Proverbs 13:6; Proverbs 21:12; Proverbs 22:12 • pervert, 1 Deuteronomy 16:19 • perverteth, 2 Exodus 23:8; Proverbs 19:3