Bent
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
(2): (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
(3): (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
(4): of Bend
(5): (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
(6): (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
(7): (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
(8): (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
(9): (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
(10): (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
(11): (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
(12): (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; - said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
(13): imp. & p. p. of Bend.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [2]
Psalm 7:12 (b) God has His judgment prepared for the ungodly, and all the evidence against them is in His hands so that He is ready to execute His vengeance on them at the right time. (See also Lamentations 2:4).
Psalm 37:14 (a) Evidently the wicked have deliberately planned and prepared trouble for the godly. They intend to injure and harm GOD's people in every way that they can. (See also Isaiah 5:28).
Lamentations 3:12 (a) Jeremiah seems to feel that God had planned trouble and sorrow for his own life for reasons which he could not understand.
Hosea 11:7 (a) The hearts of the people of Israel were inclined toward evil practices and were always ready and alert to go into things that displeased God.
King James Dictionary [3]
Bent, pp. Strained incurvated made crooked inclined subdued.
