# H5767 עַוָּל

עַוָּל (ʻavvâl), Strong’s H5767: evil (morally) KJV: unjust, unrighteous, wicked.. Occurs 5 times.

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*ʻavvâl* — evil (morally)

KJV: unjust, unrighteous, wicked.

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

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עַוָּל n.m. unjust, unrighteous one

## Where it occurs
- [Zephaniah 3:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/3?v=5) — The LORD, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail…
- [Job 18:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/18?v=21) — Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
- [Job 27:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/27?v=7) — “Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
- [Job 29:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/29?v=17) — I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- [Job 31:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/31?v=3) — Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?