# H5771 עָוֺן

עָוֺן (ʻâvôn), Strong’s H5771: perversity, i.e. (moral) evil KJV: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.. Occurs 232 times.

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*ʻâvôn* — perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

KJV: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.

Built from [אֲבַד ʼăbad](https://besorah.bible/word/H7) ({properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself) + [עָוָה ʻâvâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H5753) (to crook, literally or figuratively)

Occurs 232 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָוֹן n.m. iniquity, guilt, or punishment of iniquity

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 4:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=13) — Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- [Genesis 15:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=16) — In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
- [Genesis 19:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=15) — When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are…
- [Genesis 44:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=16) — Judah said, “What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? How will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity…
- [Exodus 20:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=5) — you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the…
- [Exodus 28:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=38) — It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel…
- [Exodus 28:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=43) — They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to…
- [Exodus 34:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=7) — keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the…
- [Exodus 34:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=9) — He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a…
- [Leviticus 5:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/5?v=1) — “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if…