evel · injustice, wrong

What it means

evel (עֶוֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “injustice, wrong”.

Injustice; what is crooked, what is not right.

How to say it

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. What is crooked, not just.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Injustice: what is crooked, what is not right, in judgment, in trade or in conduct. It is the opposite of justice and uprightness. Of the same family is עַוְלָה, ‘injustice, wickedness’.

• Injustice in judgment and in measures Leviticus 19:15Leviticus 19:35Deuteronomy 25:16
• In God there is no injustice Deuteronomy 32:4Job 34:10Zephaniah 3:5
• The righteous who turns and does injustice Ezekiel 18:24Ezekiel 33:13
• “If there is injustice in my hands” Psalms 7:3Job 11:14
• Unjust men 2 Samuel 7:102 Samuel 3:34

Historical and cultural background

Leviticus 19:35 applies it to trade: “You shall not do injustice in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, or in measure of capacity”.

How we translate it

“Injustice” 47 times and “injustices” 2, always with this word, also in Job, the Psalms and Ezekiel. When it designates persons it is rendered “unjust men” (3): “unjust men will not again afflict them” (2 Samuel 7:10).

How it is translated

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

• injustice ×47
• unjust men ×3
• injustices ×2
• unjustly ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×12
• Psalms×12
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×11
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×2
• Malachi×1

• Leviticus 19:15

  You shall not do injustice in judgment: you shall not show favor to the poor and you shall not honor the great; in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

• Leviticus 19:35

  You shall not do injustice in judgment, in measure of length, in weight, or in measure of capacity.

• Deuteronomy 25:16

  For everyone who does these things, everyone who does injustice, is an abomination to YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 32:4

  The Rock: his work is blameless, for all his ways are justice. An El of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is he.

• 2 Samuel 3:34

  Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into fetters of bronze; as one falls before unjust men, you fell.” And all the people wept again over him.

• 2 Samuel 7:10

  And I will appoint a place for my people, for Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again afflict them as at the beginning,

• 1 Chronicles 17:9

  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they will dwell in their own place and will tremble no more; and unjust men will not again consume them as at the beginning,

• 2 Chronicles 19:7

  And now, let the dread of YHWH be on you; take care and do it, for with YHWH our Elohim there is no injustice or partiality or taking of bribes.”

• Job 5:16

  So there is hope for the poor, and injustice shuts its mouth.

• Job 6:29

  Turn back, please; let there not be injustice; and turn back; my righteousness is still in it.

• Job 6:30

  Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamities?

• Job 11:14

  if wickedness is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let injustice dwell in your tents;

• Job 13:7

  Will you speak injustice for El, and for him speak deceit?

• Job 15:16

  how much less one abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water.

• Job 22:23

  If you return to Shaddai, you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tent,

• Job 24:20

  The womb forgets him; the worms savor him; he is no longer remembered, and injustice is broken like a tree.

• Job 27:4

  my lips will not speak injustice, nor will my tongue utter deceit.

• Job 34:10

  Therefore, men of heart, listen to me: far be it from El to do wickedness, and from Shaddai to do injustice.

• Job 34:32

  what is beyond what I see, you teach me; if injustice I have done, I will not do it again’?

• Job 36:23

  Who has appointed for him his way, and who has said, ‘You have done injustice’?

• Psalms 7:3

  YHWH my Elohim, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my hands,

• Psalms 37:1

  Of David. Do not get heated because of evildoers; do not be envious of those who do injustice.

• Psalms 43:1

  Judge me, Elohim, and contend for my case against a nation not faithful; from the man of deceit and injustice bring me to safety.

• Psalms 53:1

  For the director. On Mahalat. A maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have become corrupt and have done abominable injustice; there is no one who does good.

• Psalms 58:2

  Rather, in your heart you work injustices; in the land the violence of your hands you weigh out.

• Psalms 64:6

  They search out injustices: “We have completed a thoroughly searched-out plan.” And the inward part of each one and the heart are deep.

• Psalms 82:2

  “How long will you judge unjustly, and lift the face of the wicked? Selah.

• Psalms 89:22

  The enemy will not take him by surprise, and the son of injustice will not afflict him.

• Psalms 92:15

  to declare that YHWH is upright, my Rock, and there is no injustice in him.

• Psalms 107:42

  The upright see it and are glad, and all injustice shuts its mouth.

• Psalms 119:3

  Indeed they do not practice injustice; in his ways they walk.

• Psalms 125:3

  For the scepter of wickedness will not rest upon the lot of the righteous, so that the righteous will not stretch out their hands to injustice.

• Proverbs 22:8

  Whoever sows injustice will reap wickedness, and the rod of his fury will come to an end.

• Proverbs 29:27

  An abomination to the righteous is a man of injustice, and an abomination to the wicked is the upright of way.

• Isaiah 59:3

  For your palms are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken falsehood; your tongue mutters injustice.

• Jeremiah 2:5

  Thus says YHWH: “What injustice did your fathers find in me, that they went far from me and walked after vapor and became vapor?

• Ezekiel 3:20

  And when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die; because you did not warn him, for his sin he will die, and his acts of righteousness that he did will not be remembered, but his blood I will require from your hand.

• Ezekiel 18:8

  he does not lend at interest nor take profit; from injustice he withdraws his hand; he executes true judgment between man and man;

• Ezekiel 18:24

  But when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does injustice, according to all the abominations that the wicked man has done, will he do so and live? All his righteous deeds that he has done will not be remembered; for his breach of faith that he committed and for his sin that he sinned, for them he will die.

• Ezekiel 18:26

  When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and dies because of it, for his injustice that he has done he will die.

And 13 more times.