Strong’s H5766 · Hebrew
עֶוֶל
ʻevel · eh'-vel
Origin or עָוֶל; and (feminine) עַוְלָה; or עוֹלָה; or עֹלָה; from עֲוַל (H5765);
Meaning (moral) evil
In the King James Version iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
In 51 verses of the King James Version
1–50 of 51
- Leviticus 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
- Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Deuteronomy 25:16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- 2 Samuel 3:34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
- 2 Samuel 7:10Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
- 1 Chronicles 17:9Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
- 2 Chronicles 19:7Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
- Job 5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
- Job 6:29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- Job 11:14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- Job 13:7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- Job 24:20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
- Job 27:4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 34:10Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
- Job 34:32That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
- Job 36:23Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
- Psalms 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
- Psalms 37:1A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Psalms 53:1To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
- Psalms 58:2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- Psalms 64:6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
- Psalms 82:2How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
- Psalms 89:22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- Psalms 92:15To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
- Psalms 107:42The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
- Psalms 119:3They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
- Psalms 125:3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
- Proverbs 22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
- Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- Jeremiah 2:5Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
- Ezekiel 3:20Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
- Ezekiel 18:8He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
- Ezekiel 18:24But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
- Ezekiel 18:26When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
- Ezekiel 28:15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
- Ezekiel 28:18Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
- Ezekiel 33:13When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
- Ezekiel 33:15If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Ezekiel 33:18When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
- Hosea 10:13Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
- Micah 3:10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
- Zephaniah 3:5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
- Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.