עָוַת avat

Hebrew word for “to pervert” · Strong’s H5791 · used 11 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert;

How it is translated

Glosses given for avat in context, with how often each is used:

• does he pervert 2
• has wronged 1
• perverts 1
• have subverted 1
• makes crooked 1
• something bent 1
• has bent 1
• will bend themselves 1
• subvert 1
• falsify 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 8 (1), Job 19 (1), Job 34 (1), Psalms 119 (1), Psalms 146 (1), Ecclesiastes 1 (1), Ecclesiastes 7 (1), Ecclesiastes 12 (1), Lamentations 3 (1), Amos 8 (1)

Forms

• יעות 4
• עותני 1
• עותוני 1
• מעות 1
• עותו 1
• והתעותו 1
• לעות 1
• ולעות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with avat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• תָּקַן taqan “be straight” 2
• שַׁדַּי shadday “Almighty” 2
• יָכֹל yakhol “be able” 2
• אֵל el “God” 2
• רָאָה raah “to see” 3
• מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 2
• שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 2

Key verses

The verses using avat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Job 8:3 — Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
• Job 19:6 — Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
• Job 34:12 — Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
• Psalms 119:78 — Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
• Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
• Ecclesiastes 1:15 — That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
• Ecclesiastes 7:13 — Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that…
• Lamentations 3:36 — To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
• Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.