Avlah עַוְלָה

Avlah (Hebrew עַוְלָה, Strong's H5766) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “injustice”. It occurs 54 times in 52 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H5766B: injustice

H5766A: injustice

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Avlah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 19:15
  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
• Leviticus 19:35
  Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 25:16
  For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
• Deuteronomy 32:4
  He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 3:34
  Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. As a man falls before the wicked, so also you fell.” And all the people wept over him even more.
• 2 Samuel 7:10
  Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 17:9
  Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 19:7
  Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”

Job

• Job 5:16
  So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
• Job 6:29
  Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
• Job 6:30
  Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
• Job 11:14
  If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
• Job 13:7
  Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?
• Job 15:16
  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
• Job 22:23
  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
• Job 24:20
  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
• Job 27:4
  My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
• Job 34:10
  Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
• Job 34:32
  That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
• Job 36:23
  Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?

Psalms

• Psalm 7:3
  O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
• Psalm 37:1
  Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
• Psalm 43:1
  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
• Psalm 53:1
  The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
• Psalm 58:2
  Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
• Psalm 64:6
  They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
• Psalm 82:2
  How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
• Psalm 89:22
  The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
• Psalm 92:15
  To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
• Psalm 107:42
  The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
• Psalm 119:3
  They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.
• Psalm 125:3
  For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 22:8
  He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
• Proverbs 29:27
  An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 59:3
  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
• Isaiah 61:8
  For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 2:5
  Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 3:20
  Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
• Ezekiel 18:8
  He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
• Ezekiel 18:24
  But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
• Ezekiel 18:26
  When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
• Ezekiel 28:15
  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you.
• Ezekiel 28:18
  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
• Ezekiel 33:13
  When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
• Ezekiel 33:15
  If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
• Ezekiel 33:18
  When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

Hosea

• Hosea 10:13
  Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Micah

• Micah 3:10
  They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 2:12
  Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 3:5
  The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Zephaniah 3:13
  The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”

Malachi

• Malachi 2:6
  The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).