Strong’s H5767 · Hebrew
עַוָּל
ʻavvâl · av-vawl'
Origin intensive from עֲוַל (H5765);
Meaning evil (morally)
In the King James Version unjust, unrighteous, wicked.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Job 18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
- Job 27:7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
- Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of 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.
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.