{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5753",
  "lemma": "עָוָה",
  "transliteration": "ʻâvâh",
  "definition": "to crook, literally or figuratively",
  "kjv": "do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly)…",
  "occurrences": 17,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[עָוָה] vb. bend, twist",
    "Niph. be bent, bowed down, twisted",
    "Pi. my paths hath he twisted; its surface will he distort",
    "Hiph. the right have I perverted",
    "עָוָה vb. denom",
    "[עָוָה] vb. denom. commit iniquity, do wrong",
    "Qal (late) she hath done wrong",
    "Hiph. commit iniquity"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 20:30",
      "text": "Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/20?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 7:14",
      "text": "I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/7?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 19:20",
      "text": "He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 24:17",
      "text": "David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/24?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 8:47",
      "text": "yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/8?v=47"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 21:3",
      "text": "Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/21?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 24:1",
      "text": "Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 3:21",
      "text": "A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 9:4",
      "text": "Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/9?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 38:7",
      "text": "I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/38?v=7"
    }
  ],
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