Avat עָוַת
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| עָוַת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | avat |
| Strong's number | H5791 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to pervert |
| Occurrences | 11 in 10 verses |
| Most frequent in | Job (3) |
Avat (Hebrew עָוַת, Strong's H5791) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to pervert”. It occurs 11 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
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
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | pervert (3), crooked (2), overthrown (1), perversely (1), down (1), bow (1), subvert (1), falsifying (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | pervert (3), who has wronged me (1), subverting me (1), he frustrates (1), what is crooked (1), he has bent (1), stoop (1), subvert (1), let us cheat (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Avat, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Job 34:12Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
Psalms
- Psalm 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Psalm 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- 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,on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
Lamentations
- Lamentations 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
Amos
- 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?asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
Notes
- 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.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).