H5791 · עָוַת
ʻâvath · aw-vath' · pervert, crooked, bow, falsifying,
H5791 (ʻâvath, pronounced aw-vath') is the Hebrew word עָוַת in Strong’s dictionary: to wrest. It appears 11 times in 10 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- עָוַת (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- ʻâvath
- Pronunciation
- aw-vath'
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- Definition
- to wrest
- Rendered in the KJV
- bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
11 occurrences in 10 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “pervert” ×3
- “He frustrates” ×1
- “He has bent” ×1
- “What is crooked” ×1
- “let us cheat” ×1
- “stoop” ×1
- “subverting me” ×1
- “to subvert” ×1
By book
Job 3 · Psalms 2 · Ecclesiastes 3 · Lamentations 1 · Amos 1
Verses
- Job 8:3
- Job 19:6
- Job 34:12
- Psalms 119:78
- Psalms 146:9
- Ecclesiastes 1:15
- Ecclesiastes 7:13
- Ecclesiastes 12:3
- Lamentations 3:36
- Amos 8:5
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H5791.