H5791 עָוַת
ʻâvath — to wrest
KJV: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert…
Occurs 11 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָוַת] vb. be bent, crooked
- Pi.
- a make crooked = falsify scales; pervert justice
- 2 bend, make crooked
- Pu. what is bent
- Hithp. and the strong men bend themselves.
Where it occurs
- Amos 8:5 — saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the…
- Psalms 119:78 — Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
- Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
- Job 8:3 — Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- Job 19:6 — know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- Job 34:12 — Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
- Lamentations 3:36 — to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15 — That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13 — Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
- Ecclesiastes 12:3 — in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease…