Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #5791 - עָוַת avath (to be bent or crooked)


Original Word:עָוַת
Transliteration: avath
Definition:to be bent or crooked
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(aw-vath')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

bow self, make crooked

A primitive root; to wrest -- bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.


Englishman's Concordance

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
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1591

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עָוַת] verbbe bent, crooked (Late Hebrew id., Pi`el, Nithpa`el; Aramaic עַוֵּית Pa`el; compare , deceive PS3008); —

Pi`elPerfect3masculine singular suffix עִוְּתָ֑נִיJob 19:6, עִוְּתוֺEcclesiastes 7:13; 3plural suffix עִוְּתוּנִיPsalm 119:78; Imperfect3masculine singular יְעַוֵּתPsalm 146:9; Job 8:3, יְעַוֶּתֿJob 8:3; InfinitiveלְעַוֵּתAmos 8:5; Lamentations 3:22; —

1. a.make crooked=falsify, scales Amos 8:5; pervert justice (מִשְׁמָּט, צֶדֶק) Job 8:3 (twice in verse); Job 34:12 (all God subject); with accusative of person subvert (i.e. deprive of justice), אָדָם בְּרִיבוֺ׳לְעLamentations 3:36, compare Psalm 119:78; so עִוְּתָ֑נִיJob 19:6 (׳י subject).

2bend, make crooked, דֶּרֶךְ רְשָׁעִיםPsalm 146:9 (׳י subject); in General Ecclesiastes 7:13 (God subject; opposed to תִּקֵּן).

Pu`alParticipleמְעֻוָּתEcclesiastes 1:15what is bent (opposed to תְּקֹן).

Hithpa`elPerfect3plural consecutive וְהִתְעַוְּתוּEcclesiastes 12:3and the strong men bend themselves.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5791. עָוַת (avath) — 11 Occurrences

Job 8:3
HEB: הַ֭אֵל יְעַוֵּ֣ת מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וְאִם־
NAS: Does God pervert justice? Or
KJV: Doth God pervert judgment?
INT: God pervert adversary does

Job 8:3
HEB:וְאִם־ שַׁ֝דַּ֗י יְעַוֵּֽת־ צֶֽדֶק׃
NAS: does the Almighty pervert what is right?
KJV: or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
INT: does the Almighty pervert what

Job 19:6
HEB:כִּי־ אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י
NAS: that God has wronged me And has closed
KJV: that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed
INT: that God has wronged his net and has

Job 34:12
HEB:וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹֽא־ יְעַוֵּ֥ת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃
NAS: And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
KJV: neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
INT: and the Almighty will not pervert justice

Psalm 119:78
HEB:כִּי־ שֶׁ֣קֶר עִוְּת֑וּנִי אֲ֝נִ֗י אָשִׂ֥יחַ
NAS: be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie;
KJV: be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause:
INT: with A lie subvert I shall meditate

Psalm 146:9
HEB:וְדֶ֖רֶךְ רְשָׁעִ֣ים יְעַוֵּֽת׃
NAS: and the widow, But He thwarts the way
KJV: of the wicked he turneth upside down.
INT: the way of the wicked thwarts

Ecclesiastes 1:15
HEB: מְעֻוָּ֖ת לֹא־ יוּכַ֣ל
NAS:What is crooked cannot be straightened
KJV:[That which is] crooked cannot
INT:is crooked not cannot

Ecclesiastes 7:13
HEB:אֵ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר עִוְּתֽוֹ׃
NAS: to straighten what He has bent?
KJV: make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?
INT: to straighten what crooked

Ecclesiastes 12:3
HEB:שֹׁמְרֵ֣י הַבַּ֔יִת וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הֶחָ֑יִל
NAS: men stoop, the grinding
KJV: men shall bow themselves, and the grinders
INT: the watchmen of the house stoop men and mighty

Lamentations 3:36
HEB: לְעַוֵּ֤ת אָדָם֙ בְּרִיב֔וֹ
NAS:To defraud a man in his lawsuit--
KJV:To subvert a man in his cause,
INT:to defraud A man his lawsuit

Amos 8:5
HEB:וּלְהַגְדִּ֣יל שֶׁ֔קֶל וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה׃
NAS: bigger, And to cheat with dishonest
KJV: great, and falsifying the balances
INT: bigger and the shekel cheat scales dishonest

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