# H5753 עָוָה

עָוָה (ʻâvâh), Strong’s H5753: to crook, literally or figuratively KJV: do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly)…. Occurs 17 times.

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*ʻâvâh* — to crook, literally or figuratively

KJV: do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly)…

Occurs 17 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [1 Samuel 20:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/20?v=30) — Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know…
- [2 Samuel 7:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/7?v=14) — 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…
- [2 Samuel 19:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/19?v=20) — He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the…
- [2 Samuel 24:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/24?v=17) — David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done…
- [1 Kings 8:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/8?v=47) — yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land…
- [Isaiah 21:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/21?v=3) — Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much…
- [Isaiah 24:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/24?v=1) — Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
- [Jeremiah 3:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/3?v=21) — A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have…
- [Jeremiah 9:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/9?v=4) — Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary…
- [Psalms 38:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/38?v=7) — I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.