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עָוַת

avat · pervert, make crooked

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5791 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

avat (עָוַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pervert, make crooked”.

To bend, to pervert; to make what is straight crooked. Said above all of justice and right.

How to say it

a·vat

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To bend justice or the scales.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • twist ×2
  • What is crooked ×1
  • falsify ×1
  • has twisted me ×1
  • he has made crooked ×1
  • he makes crooked ×1
  • pervert ×1
  • stoop ×1
  • subvert ×1
  • they have wronged me ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Job 8:3

    Does El twist justice? Or does Shaddai twist righteousness?

  • Job 19:6

    know, then, that Eloah has twisted me, and with his net has encircled me.

  • Job 34:12

    Yes, truly, El does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.

  • Psalms 119:78

    Let the insolent be ashamed, for with lies they have wronged me; I will reflect on your precepts.

  • Psalms 146:9

    YHWH keeps the resident aliens; the orphan and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he makes crooked.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:15

    What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:13

    See the work of Elohim, for who can make straight what he has made crooked?

  • Ecclesiastes 12:3

    on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

  • Lamentations 3:36

    to subvert a human being in his cause: does Adonai not see it?

  • Amos 8:5

    saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may open the stores of wheat, to make small the ephah and make great the shekel, and to falsify scales of deceit,

And 1 more times.