ava · do wrong, pervert

What it means

ava (עָוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “do wrong, pervert”.

Twist, pervert; act crookedly, do wrong. From this root comes "iniquity" (avon).

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. To bend what is right, or be bowed down.
2. To do wrong.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• we have committed iniquity ×3
• done iniquity ×2
• I am bent over ×1
• I am twisted ×1
• I have perverted ×1
• committed iniquity ×1
• committing iniquity ×1
• did with iniquity ×1
• he commits iniquity ×1
• he distorts ×1
• others ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Esther×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Daniel×1

• 1 Samuel 20:30

  The anger of Saul burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “Son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be to him a father, and he will be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will rebuke him with the rod of men and with the blows of human beings,

• 2 Samuel 19:19

  and he said to the king, “Let not my lord hold iniquity against me, and do not remember what your servant did with iniquity on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

• 2 Samuel 24:17

  David said to YHWH, when he saw the angel who was striking among the people, and he said, “Look, I have sinned, and I have done iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father.”

• 1 Kings 8:47

  and they bring it back to their heart in the land where they have been carried captive, and they return and make supplication to you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned, and we have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’;

• 2 Chronicles 6:37

  and they bring it back to their heart in the land where they have been carried captive, and they return and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, and we have acted wickedly,’

• Esther 1:16

  And Memucan said before the king and the officials, “Not against the king alone has Vashti the queen committed iniquity, but against all the officials and against all the peoples that are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

• Job 33:27

  He looks upon men and says, ‘I have sinned, and what is right I have perverted, and it was not repaid to me.’

• Psalms 38:6

  I am twisted, bowed down greatly; all the day in mourning I go about.

• Psalms 106:6

  We have sinned with our fathers; we have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.

• Proverbs 12:8

  According to his prudence a man is praised, but one twisted of heart will be an object of contempt.

• Isaiah 21:3

  Therefore my loins are filled with trembling; pangs have seized me like the pangs of a woman giving birth; I am bent over at hearing, I am terrified at seeing.

• Isaiah 24:1

  Look, YHWH is emptying the earth and laying it waste; and he distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

• Jeremiah 3:21

  A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping, the pleading of the children of Israel, for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten YHWH their Elohim.

• Jeremiah 9:5

  And each deceives his neighbor, and truth they do not speak; they have taught their tongue to speak falsehood; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

• Lamentations 3:9

  He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made crooked my paths.

• Daniel 9:5

  we have sinned and done iniquity, we have acted wickedly and rebelled, and turned aside from your commandments and from your judgments.