# H5766 עֶוֶל

עֶוֶל (ʻevel), Strong’s H5766: (moral) evil KJV: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).. Occurs 53 times.

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*ʻevel* — (moral) evil

KJV: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).

Derived from [עֲוַל ʻăval](https://besorah.bible/word/H5765) (to distort)

Occurs 53 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָ֫וֶל n.m. injustice, unrighteousness
- עַוְלָה n.f
- עַוְלָה n.f. injustice, unrighteousness, wrong

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 19:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=15) — “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but…
- [Leviticus 19:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=35) — “‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
- [Deuteronomy 25:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=16) — For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
- [Deuteronomy 32:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=4) — The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
- [2 Samuel 3:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/3?v=34) — Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so…
- [2 Samuel 7:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/7?v=10) — I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved…
- [Isaiah 59:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=3) — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters…
- [Jeremiah 2:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=5) — The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked…
- [Ezekiel 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/3?v=20) — “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him…
- [Ezekiel 18:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/18?v=8) — he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from…