Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5791
עָוַת
a.vat · “to pervert”
Used 11 times across 5 books
Definition
1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert
1a)(Piel)
1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
1a2) to bend, make crooked
1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle)
1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself
1a)(Piel)
1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
1a2) to bend, make crooked
1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle)
1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself
Where it appears
Job4
Psalms2
Ecclesiastes3
Lamentations1
Amos1
In the text
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?Job 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.Job 34:12Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.Psalms 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.Psalms 146:9The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?Ecclesiastes 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,Lamentations 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.Amos 8:5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
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