{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5791",
  "lemma": "עָוַת",
  "transliteration": "ʻâvath",
  "definition": "to wrest",
  "kjv": "bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert…",
  "occurrences": 11,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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."
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Amos 8:5",
      "text": "saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/8?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 119:78",
      "text": "Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/119?v=78"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 146:9",
      "text": "The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/146?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 8:3",
      "text": "Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/8?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 19:6",
      "text": "know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/19?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Job 34:12",
      "text": "Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/34?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Lamentations 3:36",
      "text": "to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=36"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 1:15",
      "text": "That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/1?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 7:13",
      "text": "Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/7?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ecclesiastes 12:3",
      "text": "in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/12?v=3"
    }
  ],
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