# H5791 עָוַת

עָוַת (ʻâvath), Strong’s H5791: to wrest KJV: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert…. Occurs 11 times.

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*ʻâvath* — to wrest

KJV: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert…

Occurs 11 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/8?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/119?v=78) — Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
- [Psalms 146:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/146?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/8?v=3) — Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- [Job 19:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/19?v=6) — know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- [Job 34:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/34?v=12) — Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
- [Lamentations 3:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=36) — to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/1?v=15) — That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/7?v=13) — Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
- [Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/12?v=3) — in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease…