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What Does “Froward” Mean in the Bible?
In the King James Bible, “Froward” means “perverse” in modern English. It is an archaic word from the 1611 KJV that has dropped out of everyday use.
What Was Lost
The directional moral language. Froward was the antonym of toward -- one was facing-toward-God, the other facing-away-from-God. English lost this spatial moral vocabulary. A froward heart was literally a heart turned in the wrong direction. You could not be accidentally froward; it required deliberate rotation away from the good.
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