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
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